geadavsgraçaTell them apart

Which to use

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

#37,339
“geada” frequency rank
#1,400
“graça” frequency rank
38739
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature geada graça
Definition uma cobertura de pequenas partículas de gelo que se formam à noite no solo e nos objetos expostos quando eles resfriam-se abaixo do ponto de orvalho e quando o ponto de orvalho é inferior ao ponto de congelamento da água felicidade

Letter map: geada vs graça

Shared letters muted; letters that set geada and graça apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
geada
5 ch
graça

Pair insight - geada / graça

geada and graça 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38739, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

geada is recorded at frequency rank #37,339, classified as anoun. graça is at rank #1,400, 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 38739, this pair ranks #27,653 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of geada vs graça

Shared letters: ag. Private to "geada": de. Private to "graça": .

"geada" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "graça" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • geadaegada · gaeda · geaad · geadda · gedaa · ggeada

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "geada" for "graça" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "geada" or "graça" show up more?
"graça" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,400 in our Portuguese list, against #37,339 for "geada". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "geada" and "graça".

  • Full dictionary entry for "geada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "graça" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #27,653 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "geada" and "graça" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "geada vs graxa". 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 #27,653 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