GOATvsgrauWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: GOAT is a abbrev, grau is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“GOAT” is an abbrev and “grau” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,377
“GOAT” frequency rank
#2,014
“grau” frequency rank
47391
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature GOAT grau
Definition sigla para "greatest of all time" ("maior de todos os tempos") unidade de ângulo

Letter map: GOAT vs grau

Shared letters muted; letters that set GOAT and grau apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
GOAT
4 ch
grau

Part-of-speech tell for GOAT / grau

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: GOAT is anabbrev and grauanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47391, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

GOAT is recorded at frequency rank #45,377, classified as anabbrev. grau is at rank #2,014, 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 47391, this pair ranks #17,863 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of GOAT vs grau

Shared letters: ag. Private to "GOAT": ot. Private to "grau": ru.

"GOAT" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "grau" · 4 letters · shape CCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • GOATggoat · goatt · ogat
  • graugaru · ggrau · grrau · rgau

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "GOAT" for "grau" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "GOAT" is an abbrev and "grau" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "GOAT" or "grau" show up more?
"grau" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,014 in our Portuguese list, against #45,377 for "GOAT". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "GOAT" and "grau".

  • Full dictionary entry for "GOAT" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "grau" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #17,863 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "GOAT" and "grau" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "GOAT vs Guam". 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 #17,863 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