iradovsIrãoConfusable pair

Quick tell: irado is a adjective, Irão is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#22,696
“irado” frequency rank
#1,785
“Irão” frequency rank
24481
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature irado Irão
Definition que sente ira 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: irado vs Irão

Shared letters muted; letters that set irado and Irão apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. irado 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
irado
4 ch
Irão

Role in the sentence - irado and Irão

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: irado is anadjective and Irãoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24481, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

irado is recorded at frequency rank #22,696, classified as anadj, pronounced /i.ˈɾa.du/. 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 24481, this pair ranks #45,127 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of irado vs Irão

Shared letters: ior. Private to "irado": ad. Private to "Irão": ã.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • irado ← iardo · iraddo · iraod · irdao · irrado · riado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "irado" for "Irão" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "irado" is an adjective and "Irão" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "irado" or "Irão" show up more?
"Irão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,785 in our Portuguese list, against #22,696 for "irado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "irado" and "Irão". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "irado" 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 #45,127 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "irado" and "Irão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "inato vs irado". 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 #45,127 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