fodavsfodasWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#2,426
“foda” frequency rank
#35,600
“fodas” frequency rank
38026
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature foda fodas
Definition difícil; duro plural de foda

Letter map: foda vs fodas

Shared letters muted; letters that set foda and fodas apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. foda runs 4 letters (CVCV) against fodas's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
foda
5 ch
fodas

Part-of-speech tell for foda / fodas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foda is anadjective and fodasanoun. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “foda” sits inside “fodas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38026, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foda is recorded at frequency rank #2,426, classified as anadj. fodas is at rank #35,600, tagged as anoun.

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 38026, this pair ranks #28,501 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of foda vs fodas

Shared letters: adfo. Private to "foda": -. Private to "fodas": s.

"foda" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "fodas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • foda ← fdoa · ffoda · foad · fodda · ofda
  • fodas ← fdoas · ffodas · foads · fodass · foddas · fodsa · ofdas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "foda" for "fodas" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foda" is an adjective and "fodas" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "foda" or "fodas" show up more?
"foda" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,426 in our Portuguese list, against #35,600 for "fodas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "foda" and "fodas". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "foda" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fodas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,501 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "foda" and "fodas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fodão vs fodas". 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 #28,501 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