notificaçãovsnotificadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#7,670
“notificação” frequency rank
#20,375
“notificado” frequency rank
28045
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature notificação notificado
Definition ato ou efeito de notificar que foi avisado, comunicado, informado

Letter map: notificação vs notificado

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

11 ch
notificação
10 ch
notificado

Role in the sentence - notificação and notificado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: notificação is anoun and notificadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28045, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

notificação is recorded at frequency rank #7,670, classified as anoun, pronounced /nu.ti.fi.kɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. notificado is at rank #20,375, tagged as anadj.

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 28045, this pair ranks #40,834 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of notificação vs notificado

Shared letters: acfinot. Private to "notificação": ãç. Private to "notificado": d.

"notificação" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCVV  ·  "notificado" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • notificado ← nnotificado · noitficado · notfiicado · notifciado · notifficado · notifiacdo · notificaddo · notificaod

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "notificação" and "notificado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "notificação" is a noun and "notificado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "notificação" vs "notificado" - which ranks higher?
"notificação" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,670 in our Portuguese list, against #20,375 for "notificado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "notificação" vs "notificado" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "notificação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "notificado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,834 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "notificação" and "notificado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "notificado vs notificar". 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 #40,834 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