filãovsfinadoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: filão is a noun, finado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,976
“filão” frequency rank
#44,369
“finado” frequency rank
94345
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature filão finado
Definition intrusão de rochas eruptivas em fendas que finou

Letter map: filão vs finado

Shared letters muted; letters that set filão and finado apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. filão runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against finado's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
filão
6 ch
finado

Part-of-speech tell for filão / finado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: filão is anoun and finadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94345, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

filão is recorded at frequency rank #49,976, classified as anoun. finado is at rank #44,369, tagged as anadj.

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 94345, this pair ranks #99 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of filão vs finado

Shared letters: fio. Private to "filão": lã. Private to "finado": adn.

"filão" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "finado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • finado ← ffinado · fiando · finaddo · finaod · findao · finnado · fniado · ifnado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "filão" and "finado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "filão" is a noun and "finado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "filão" vs "finado" - which ranks higher?
"finado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #44,369 in our Portuguese list, against #49,976 for "filão". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "filão" and "finado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "filão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "finado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #99 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "filão" and "finado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "filão vs filiar". 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 #99 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