grave vs grude, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,096
“grave” frequency rank: #46,358
“grude” frequency rank: 48454
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	grave	grude
Definition	som de baixa frequência, no limite inferior da audição humana	tipo de cola para madeira, etc.

Letter map: grave vs grude

Shared letters muted; letters that set grave and grude apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

grave

5 ch

grude

Grammar separator: grave vs grude

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: grave is anadjective and grudeanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48454, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

grave is recorded at frequency rank #2,096, classified as anadj. grude is at rank #46,358, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈɡɾu.dɨ/.

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 48454, this pair ranks #16,702 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of grave vs grude

Shared letters: egr. Private to "grave": av. Private to "grude": du.

"grave" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "grude" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

grave ← garve · ggrave · graev · gravve · grrave · grvae · rgave
grude ← ggrude · grdue · grrude · grudde · grued · gurde · rgude

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "grave" for "grude" ever safe?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "grave" or "grude" show up more?

"grave" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,096 in our Portuguese list, against #46,358 for "grude". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "grave" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "grude" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #16,702 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"grave" and "grude" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grua 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 #16,702 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.