fartovsfavoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: farto is a adjective, favo is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#10,718
“farto” frequency rank
#45,853
“favo” frequency rank
56571
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature farto favo
Definition repleto, cheio alvéolo de cera hexagonal e o seu conteúdo, que as abelhas formam nas suas colmeias para armazém de mel, pólen, e cuidado dos ovos e larvas

Letter map: farto vs favo

Shared letters muted; letters that set farto and favo apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. farto runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against favo's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
farto
4 ch
favo

Part-of-speech tell for farto / favo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: farto is anadjective and favoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56571, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

farto is recorded at frequency rank #10,718, classified as anadj. favo is at rank #45,853, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfa.vu/.

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 56571, this pair ranks #9,882 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of farto vs favo

Shared letters: afo. Private to "farto": rt. Private to "favo": v.

"farto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "favo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fartoafrto · farot · farrto · fartto · ffarto · frato
  • favoafvo · faov · favvo · ffavo · fvao

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "farto" for "favo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "farto" is an adjective and "favo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "farto" or "favo" show up more?
"farto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,718 in our Portuguese list, against #45,853 for "favo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "farto" vs "favo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "farto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "favo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #9,882 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "farto" and "favo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fava vs favo". 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 #9,882 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list