golaçovsgozadoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#33,002
“golaço” frequency rank
#39,176
“gozado” frequency rank
72178
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature golaço gozado
Definition gol muito bonito ou realizado com grande maestria que foi usufruído, aproveitado

Letter map: golaço vs gozado

Shared letters muted; letters that set golaço and gozado apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. golaço and gozado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
golaço
6 ch
gozado

Part-of-speech tell for golaço / gozado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: golaço is anoun and gozadoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72178, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

golaço is recorded at frequency rank #33,002, classified as anoun. gozado is at rank #39,176, 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 72178, this pair ranks #3,135 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of golaço vs gozado

Shared letters: ago. Private to "golaço": lç. Private to "gozado": dz.

"golaço" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "gozado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gozado ← ggozado · goazdo · gozaddo · gozaod · gozdao · gozzado · gzoado · ogzado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "golaço" and "gozado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "golaço" is a noun and "gozado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "golaço" or "gozado" show up more?
"golaço" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,002 in our Portuguese list, against #39,176 for "gozado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "golaço" vs "gozado" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "golaço" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "gozado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #3,135 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "golaço" and "gozado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "galão vs golaço". 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 #3,135 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