ordenadavsordenadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#23,755
“ordenada” frequency rank
#11,694
“ordenado” frequency rank
35449
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ordenada ordenado
Definition abcissa classificado segundo uma ordem

Letter map: ordenada vs ordenado

Shared letters muted; letters that set ordenada and ordenado apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. ordenada and ordenado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
ordenada
8 ch
ordenado

Part-of-speech tell for ordenada / ordenado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ordenada is anoun and ordenadoanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “ordenada” becomes o in “ordenado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35449, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ordenada is recorded at frequency rank #23,755, classified as anoun. ordenado is at rank #11,694, tagged as anadj, pronounced /oɾ.de.ˈna.dʊ/.

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 35449, this pair ranks #31,599 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ordenada vs ordenado

Shared letters: adenor. Private to "ordenada": -. Private to "ordenado": -.

"ordenada" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV  ·  "ordenado" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ordenada ← odrenada · orddenada · ordeanda · ordenaad · ordenadda · ordendaa · ordennada · ordneada
  • ordenado ← odrenado · orddenado · ordeando · ordenaddo · ordenaod · ordendao · ordennado · ordneado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ordenada" for "ordenado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ordenada" is a noun and "ordenado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "ordenada" or "ordenado" show up more?
"ordenado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,694 in our Portuguese list, against #23,755 for "ordenada". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "ordenada" and "ordenado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ordenada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ordenado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,599 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ordenada" and "ordenado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ordenação vs ordenada". 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 #31,599 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