honravshonradoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#2,097
“honra” frequency rank
#13,955
“honrado” frequency rank
16052
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature honra honrado
Definition honestidade, integridade em suas crenças e ações sem mácula

Letter map: honra vs honrado

Shared letters muted; letters that set honra and honrado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. honra runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against honrado's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
honra
7 ch
honrado

Part-of-speech tell for honra / honrado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: honra is anoun and honradoanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “honra” sits inside “honrado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16052, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

honra is recorded at frequency rank #2,097, classified as anoun. honrado is at rank #13,955, tagged as anadj, pronounced /õ.ˈRa.du/.

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 16052, this pair ranks #55,589 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of honra vs honrado

Shared letters: ahnor. Private to "honra": -. Private to "honrado": d.

"honra" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "honrado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • honra ← hhonra · hnora · honar · honnra · honrra · horna · ohnra
  • honrado ← hhonrado · hnorado · honardo · honnrado · honraddo · honraod · honrdao · honrrado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "honra" and "honrado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "honra" is a noun and "honrado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "honra" or "honrado"?
"honra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,097 in our Portuguese list, against #13,955 for "honrado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "honra" and "honrado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "honra" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "honrado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #55,589 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "honra" and "honrado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "honrado vs honroso". 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 #55,589 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