ÍcarovsIrãoTell them apart

Which to use

“Ícaro” and “Irão” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#31,616
“Ícaro” frequency rank
#1,785
“Irão” frequency rank
33401
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Ícaro Irão
Definition prenome masculino. país do Oriente Médio, com nome oficial de República Islâmica do Irão, tem fronteiras com a Armênia, Azerbaijão, Turquemenistão, Afeganistão, Paquistão, Iraque e Turquia, é banhado ao norte pelo mar Cáspio, ao sul pelo golfo de Omã e ao sudoeste pelo golfo Pérsico, sua capital é Teerão

Letter map: Ícaro vs Irão

Shared letters muted; letters that set Ícaro and Irão apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Ícaro runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against Irão's 4 (VCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
Ícaro
4 ch
Irão

Spelling & dictionary notes on Ícaro vs Irão

Ícaro and Irão are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33401, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Ícaro is recorded at frequency rank #31,616, classified as anoun, pronounced /'i.ka.ɾu/.. Irão is at rank #1,785, tagged as anoun.

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 33401, this pair ranks #34,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Ícaro vs Irão

Shared letters: or. Private to "Ícaro": ací. Private to "Irão": iã.

"Ícaro" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "Irão" · 4 letters · shape VCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Ícaro" for "Irão" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "Ícaro" vs "Irão" - which ranks higher?
"Irão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,785 in our Portuguese list, against #31,616 for "Ícaro". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "Ícaro" vs "Irão" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Ícaro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Irão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #34,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Ícaro" and "Irão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Ícaro vs inato". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #34,137 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