farto vs fast, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“farto” is an adjective and “fast” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#10,718
“farto” frequency rank: #8,052
“fast” frequency rank: 18770
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	farto	fast
Definition	repleto, cheio	quase

Letter map: farto vs fast

Shared letters muted; letters that set farto and fast apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

farto

4 ch

fast

Part-of-speech tell for farto / fast

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: farto is anadjective and fastanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18770, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

farto is recorded at frequency rank #10,718, classified as anadj. fast is at rank #8,052, tagged as anadv, pronounced /fast/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 18770, this pair ranks #52,131 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of farto vs fast

Shared letters: aft. Private to "farto": or. Private to "fast": s.

"farto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "fast" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

farto ← afrto · farot · farrto · fartto · ffarto · frato
fast ← afst · fasst · fastt · fats · ffast · fsat

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "farto" for "fast" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "farto" is an adjective and "fast" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "farto" vs "fast" - which ranks higher?

"fast" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,052 in our Portuguese list, against #10,718 for "farto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "farto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "fast" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #52,131 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"farto" and "fast" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fartar vs farto". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #52,131 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.