pace vs pacote, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#29,071
“pace” frequency rank: #3,790
“pacote” frequency rank: 32861
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	pace	pacote
Definition	em paz, pacificamente	embalagem

Letter map: pace vs pacote

Shared letters muted; letters that set pace and pacote apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch

pace

6 ch

pacote

Role in the sentence - pace and pacote

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pace is anadverb and pacoteanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32861, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pace is recorded at frequency rank #29,071, classified as anadv, pronounced /ˈpa.t͡se/, /ˈpɑ.t͡sɛ/. pacote is at rank #3,790, 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 32861, this pair ranks #34,818 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pace vs pacote

Shared letters: acep. Private to "pace": -. Private to "pacote": ot.

"pace" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "pacote" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

pace ← apce · pacce · paec · pcae · ppace
pacote ← apcote · paccote · pacoet · pacotte · pactoe · paocte · pcaote · ppacote

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "pace" for "pacote" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "pace" is an adverb and "pacote" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "pace" or "pacote"?

"pacote" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,790 in our Portuguese list, against #29,071 for "pace". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "pace" and "pacote". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "pace" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "pacote" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #34,818 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"pace" and "pacote" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pace vs pale". 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 #34,818 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.