firmadovsfuradoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#12,893
“firmado” frequency rank
#19,160
“furado” frequency rank
32053
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature firmado furado
Definition que se firmou aquele ou aquilo que recebeu um ou mais furos

Letter map: firmado vs furado

Shared letters muted; letters that set firmado and furado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. firmado runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against furado's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
firmado
6 ch
furado

Pair insight - firmado / furado

firmado 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32053, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

firmado is recorded at frequency rank #12,893, 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 32053, this pair ranks #35,853 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of firmado vs furado

Shared letters: adfor. Private to "firmado": im. Private to "furado": u.

"firmado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "furado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • firmado ← ffirmado · fimrado · firamdo · firmaddo · firmaod · firmdao · firmmado · firrmado
  • furado ← ffurado · fruado · fuardo · furaddo · furaod · furdao · furrado · ufrado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "firmado" and "furado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "firmado" or "furado"?
"firmado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,893 in our Portuguese list, against #19,160 for "furado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "firmado" and "furado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "firmado" 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 #35,853 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "firmado" and "furado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "figurado vs furado". 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 #35,853 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