feitovsfrisoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#328
“feito” frequency rank
#47,371
“friso” frequency rank
47699
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feito friso
Definition fabricado, produzido faixa ou tira ao longo de uma parede usada como ornamento

Where the eye mixes feito and friso

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
feito
5 ch
friso

Look-alike desk: feito vs friso

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: feito is /ˈfɐj.tu/ while friso is /ˈfɾi.zu/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47699, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feito is recorded at frequency rank #328, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈfɐj.tu/. friso is at rank #47,371, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfɾi.zu/.

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 47699, this pair ranks #17,536 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of feito vs friso

Shared letters: fio. Private to "feito": et. Private to "friso": rs.

"feito" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "friso" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feitoefito · feiot · feitto · fetio · ffeito · fieto
  • frisoffriso · firso · frios · frisso · frriso · frsio · rfiso

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "feito" for "friso" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feito" is an adjective and "friso" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "feito" or "friso"?
"feito" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #328 in our Portuguese list, against #47,371 for "friso". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "feito" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "friso" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #17,536 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feito" and "friso" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feioso vs friso". 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 #17,536 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