movimentadovsmovimentarTell them apart

Quick tell: movimentado is a adjective, movimentar is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“movimentado” is an adjective and “movimentar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,119
“movimentado” frequency rank
#15,404
“movimentar” frequency rank
31523
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature movimentado movimentar
Definition agitado, animado dar movimento ou animação a

Letter map: movimentado vs movimentar

Shared letters muted; letters that set movimentado and movimentar apart highlighted. Shared run: 9. movimentado runs 11 letters (CVCVCVCCVCV) against movimentar's 10 (CVCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
movimentado
10 ch
movimentar

Role in the sentence - movimentado and movimentar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: movimentado is anadjective and movimentaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31523, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

movimentado is recorded at frequency rank #16,119, classified as anadj. movimentar is at rank #15,404, tagged as averb, pronounced /mu.vi.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/.

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 31523, this pair ranks #36,513 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of movimentado vs movimentar

Shared letters: aeimnotv. Private to "movimentado": d. Private to "movimentar": r.

"movimentado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCV  ·  "movimentar" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • movimentado ← mmovimentado · moivmentado · moviemntado · movimenatdo · movimenntado · movimentaddo · movimentaod · movimentdao
  • movimentar ← mmovimentar · moivmentar · moviemntar · movimenatr · movimenntar · movimentarr · movimentra · movimenttar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "movimentado" for "movimentar" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "movimentado" is an adjective and "movimentar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "movimentado" vs "movimentar" - which ranks higher?
"movimentar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,404 in our Portuguese list, against #16,119 for "movimentado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "movimentado" and "movimentar". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "movimentado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "movimentar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #36,513 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "movimentado" and "movimentar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "movimentação vs movimentado". 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 #36,513 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