Which to use
“grade” is a noun and “grave” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,030
- “grade” frequency rank
- #2,096
- “grave” frequency rank
- 9126
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | grade | grave |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | armação para vedar | som de baixa frequência, no limite inferior da audição humana |
Letter map: grade vs grave
Shared letters muted; letters that set grade and grave apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Part-of-speech tell for grade / grave
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: grade is anoun and graveanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “grade” becomes v in “grave”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9126, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
grade is recorded at frequency rank #7,030, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈɡɾa.dɨ/. grave is at rank #2,096, 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 9126, this pair ranks #64,416 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of grade vs grave
Shared letters: aegr. Private to "grade": d. Private to "grave": v.
"grade" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "grave" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "grade" and "grave" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "grade" or "grave" show up more?
What to do next
You've compared "grade" and "grave". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "grade" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "grave" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #64,416 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "grade" and "grave" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grade vs grude". 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 #64,416 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.