gazevsgraveTell them apart

Quick tell: gaze is a noun, grave is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#42,478
“gaze” frequency rank
#2,096
“grave” frequency rank
44574
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gaze grave
Definition tecido leve e transparente som de baixa frequência, no limite inferior da audição humana

Letter map: gaze vs grave

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

4 ch
gaze
5 ch
grave

Role in the sentence - gaze and grave

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gaze is anoun and graveanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gaze is recorded at frequency rank #42,478, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈɡa.zɨ/. grave is at rank #2,096, tagged as anadj.

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 44574, this pair ranks #20,882 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of gaze vs grave

Shared letters: aeg. Private to "gaze": z. Private to "grave": rv.

"gaze" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "grave" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gaze ← agze · gaez · gazze · ggaze · gzae
  • grave ← garve · ggrave · graev · gravve · grrave · grvae · rgave

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "gaze" and "grave" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gaze" is a noun and "grave" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "gaze" or "grave" show up more?
"grave" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,096 in our Portuguese list, against #42,478 for "gaze". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "gaze" and "grave". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gaze" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "grave" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,882 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gaze" and "grave" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gain vs gaze". 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 #20,882 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