Which to use
“incesto” and “ingestão” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,780
- “incesto” frequency rank
- #16,095
- “ingestão” frequency rank
- 37875
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | incesto | ingestão |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | união ilícita entre parentes próximos, em grau proibido por lei | ato ou efeito de ingerir; deglutição |
Letter map: incesto vs ingestão
Shared letters muted; letters that set incesto and ingestão apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. incesto runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against ingestão's 8 (VCCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Pair insight - incesto / ingestão
incesto and ingestão 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 37875, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
incesto is recorded at frequency rank #21,780, classified as anoun. ingestão is at rank #16,095, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ĩ.ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/.
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 37875, this pair ranks #28,683 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of incesto vs ingestão
Shared letters: einost. Private to "incesto": c. Private to "ingestão": gã.
"incesto" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "ingestão" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- incesto ← icnesto · inccesto · incesot · incessto · incestto · incetso · incseto · inecsto
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "incesto" and "ingestão" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "incesto" or "ingestão" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pair "incesto" vs "ingestão" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "incesto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "ingestão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #28,683 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "incesto" and "ingestão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "incenso vs incesto". 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 #28,683 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.