notificadovsnotificarWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#20,375
“notificado” frequency rank
#22,101
“notificar” frequency rank
42476
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature notificado notificar
Definition que foi avisado, comunicado, informado enviar notificação

Letter map: notificado vs notificar

Shared letters muted; letters that set notificado and notificar apart highlighted. Shared run: 8. notificado runs 10 letters (CVCVCVCVCV) against notificar's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
notificado
9 ch
notificar

Role in the sentence - notificado and notificar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: notificado is anadjective and notificaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

notificado is recorded at frequency rank #20,375, classified as anadj. notificar is at rank #22,101, tagged as averb, pronounced /nu.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/.

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 42476, this pair ranks #23,304 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of notificado vs notificar

Shared letters: acfinot. Private to "notificado": d. Private to "notificar": r.

"notificado" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCV  ·  "notificar" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • notificado ← nnotificado · noitficado · notfiicado · notifciado · notifficado · notifiacdo · notificaddo · notificaod
  • notificar ← nnotificar · noitficar · notfiicar · notifciar · notifficar · notifiacr · notificarr · notificcar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "notificado" and "notificar" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "notificado" is an adjective and "notificar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "notificado" or "notificar" show up more?
"notificado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,375 in our Portuguese list, against #22,101 for "notificar". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "notificado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "notificar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #23,304 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "notificado" and "notificar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "notificação vs notificado". 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 #23,304 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