fodavsfoderTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#2,426
“foda” frequency rank
#3,562
“foder” frequency rank
5988
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature foda foder
Definition difícil; duro ter relações sexuais com, transar

Letter map: foda vs foder

Shared letters muted; letters that set foda and foder apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
foda
5 ch
foder

Part-of-speech tell for foda / foder

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foda is anadjective and foderaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5988, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foda is recorded at frequency rank #2,426, classified as anadj. foder is at rank #3,562, tagged as averb, pronounced /fo.'deɾ/, /fo.'de/.

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 5988, this pair ranks #68,552 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of foda vs foder

Shared letters: dfo. Private to "foda": a. Private to "foder": er.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fodafdoa · ffoda · foad · fodda · ofda
  • foderfdoer · ffoder · fodder · foderr · fodre · foedr · ofder

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "foda" for "foder" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foda" is an adjective and "foder" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "foda" or "foder" show up more?
"foda" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,426 in our Portuguese list, against #3,562 for "foder". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "foda" and "foder".

  • Full dictionary entry for "foda" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "foder" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,552 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "foda" and "foder" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foder vs former". 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 #68,552 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