fartovsfurtoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#10,718
“farto” frequency rank
#16,779
“furto” frequency rank
27497
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature farto furto
Definition repleto, cheio o ato de furtar

Letter map: farto vs furto

Shared letters muted; letters that set farto and furto apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. farto and furto follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
farto
5 ch
furto

Part-of-speech tell for farto / furto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: farto is anadjective and furtoanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “farto” becomes u in “furto”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27497, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

farto is recorded at frequency rank #10,718, classified as anadj. furto is at rank #16,779, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfuɾ.tu/.

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 27497, this pair ranks #41,455 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of farto vs furto

Shared letters: fort. Private to "farto": a. Private to "furto": u.

"farto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "furto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • farto ← afrto · farot · farrto · fartto · ffarto · frato
  • furto ← ffurto · furot · furrto · furtto · futro · ufrto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "farto" and "furto" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "farto" is an adjective and "furto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "farto" vs "furto" - which ranks higher?
"farto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,718 in our Portuguese list, against #16,779 for "furto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "farto" and "furto".

  • Full dictionary entry for "farto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "furto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,455 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "farto" and "furto" 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 #41,455 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