golavsgolpeWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: gola is a adjective, golpe is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#24,999
“gola” frequency rank
#1,747
“golpe” frequency rank
26746
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gola golpe
Definition o mesmo que ngola pancada, choque (físico ou moral)

Letter map: gola vs golpe

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

4 ch
gola
5 ch
golpe

Role in the sentence - gola and golpe

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gola is anadjective and golpeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26746, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gola is recorded at frequency rank #24,999, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈɡɔ.lɐ/. golpe is at rank #1,747, 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 26746, this pair ranks #42,342 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of gola vs golpe

Shared letters: glo. Private to "gola": a. Private to "golpe": ep.

"gola" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "golpe" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gola ← ggola · gloa · goal · golla · ogla
  • golpe ← ggolpe · glope · golep · gollpe · golppe · gople · oglpe

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "gola" and "golpe" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gola" is an adjective and "golpe" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "gola" or "golpe" show up more?
"golpe" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,747 in our Portuguese list, against #24,999 for "gola". 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 "gola" and "golpe".

  • Full dictionary entry for "gola" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "golpe" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,342 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gola" and "golpe" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gola vs grua". 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 #42,342 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