foda vs foras, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,426
“foda” frequency rank: #35,602
“foras” frequency rank: 38028
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	foda	foras
Definition	difícil; duro	forma plural de fora

Letter map: foda vs foras

Shared letters muted; letters that set foda and foras apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. foda runs 4 letters (CVCV) against foras's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch

foda

5 ch

foras

Role in the sentence - foda and foras

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foda is anadjective and forasanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38028, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foda is recorded at frequency rank #2,426, classified as anadj. foras is at rank #35,602, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfɔ.ɾas/.

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 38028, this pair ranks #28,498 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of foda vs foras

Shared letters: afo. Private to "foda": d. Private to "foras": rs.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

foda ← fdoa · ffoda · foad · fodda · ofda
foras ← fforas · foars · forass · forras · forsa · froas · ofras

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "foda" and "foras" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foda" is an adjective and "foras" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "foda" or "foras"?

"foda" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,426 in our Portuguese list, against #35,602 for "foras". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "foda" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "foras" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #28,498 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"foda" and "foras" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fodão vs foras". 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 #28,498 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.