pacasvspazesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: pacas is a adverb, pazes is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“pacas” is an adverb and “pazes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,064
“pacas” frequency rank
#16,831
“pazes” frequency rank
59895
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pacas pazes
Definition muito reconciliação, ação ou resultado da ação de fazer reestabelecida relação de amistosidade mútua

Letter map: pacas vs pazes

Shared letters muted; letters that set pacas and pazes apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
pacas
5 ch
pazes

Grammar separator: pacas vs pazes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pacas is anadverb and pazesanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59895, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pacas is recorded at frequency rank #43,064, classified as anadv. pazes is at rank #16,831, 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 59895, this pair ranks #7,942 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of pacas vs pazes

Shared letters: aps. Private to "pacas": c. Private to "pazes": ez.

"pacas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "pazes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pacasapcas · paacs · pacass · paccas · pacsa · pcaas · ppacas
  • pazesapzes · paezs · pazess · pazse · pazzes · ppazes · pzaes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "pacas" and "pazes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "pacas" is an adverb and "pazes" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "pacas" or "pazes"?
"pazes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,831 in our Portuguese list, against #43,064 for "pacas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "pacas" and "pazes". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "pacas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pazes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #7,942 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pacas" and "pazes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pacas vs pança". 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 #7,942 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