grace vs grande, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#7,919
“grace” frequency rank: #100
“grande” frequency rank: 8019
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	grace	grande
Definition	graça	que tem dimensões mais que ordinárias

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set grace and grande apart are highlighted. They share 4 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

5 ch

grace

6 ch

grande

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: grace is /ɡɹeɪs/ while grande is ˈgɾɐ̃n.d͡ʒɪ. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8019, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

grace is recorded at frequency rank #7,919, classified as anoun, pronounced /ɡɹeɪs/. grande is at rank #100, tagged as anadj, pronounced ˈgɾɐ̃n.d͡ʒɪ.

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 8019, this pair ranks #65,914 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of grace vs grande

Shared letters: aegr. Private to "grace": c. Private to "grande": dn.

"grace" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "grande" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

grace ← garce · ggrace · gracce · graec · grcae · grrace · rgace
grande ← garnde · ggrande · gradne · grandde · graned · grannde · grnade · grrande

Frequency comparison

grace#7,919

grande#100

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "grace" and "grande" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "grace" is a noun and "grande" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "grace" or "grande"?

"grande" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #100 in our Portuguese list, against #7,919 for "grace". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering grace vs grande

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “grace”; for an adjective, it's “grande”.
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