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“finado” and “furado” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#44,369
“finado” frequency rank
#19,160
“furado” frequency rank
63529
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature finado furado
Definition que finou aquele ou aquilo que recebeu um ou mais furos

Letter map: finado vs furado

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

6 ch
finado
6 ch
furado

Spelling & dictionary notes on finado vs furado

finado and furado are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63529, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

finado is recorded at frequency rank #44,369, classified as anadj. furado is at rank #19,160, tagged as anadj, pronounced /fu.ˈɾa.du/.

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 63529, this pair ranks #6,149 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of finado vs furado

Shared letters: adfo. Private to "finado": in. Private to "furado": ru.

"finado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "furado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • finado ← ffinado · fiando · finaddo · finaod · findao · finnado · fniado · ifnado
  • furado ← ffurado · fruado · fuardo · furaddo · furaod · furdao · furrado · ufrado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "finado" and "furado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "finado" vs "furado" - which ranks higher?
"furado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,160 in our Portuguese list, against #44,369 for "finado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "finado" vs "furado" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "finado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "furado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #6,149 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "finado" and "furado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "filão vs finado". 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 #6,149 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