pacevspazesConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#29,071
“pace” frequency rank
#16,831
“pazes” frequency rank
45902
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pace pazes
Definition em paz, pacificamente reconciliação, ação ou resultado da ação de fazer reestabelecida relação de amistosidade mútua

Letter map: pace vs pazes

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

4 ch
pace
5 ch
pazes

Role in the sentence - pace and pazes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pace is anadverb and pazesanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45902, 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/. 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 45902, this pair ranks #19,483 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pace vs pazes

Shared letters: aep. Private to "pace": c. Private to "pazes": sz.

"pace" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "pazes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • paceapce · pacce · paec · pcae · ppace
  • pazesapzes · paezs · pazess · pazse · pazzes · ppazes · pzaes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "pace" and "pazes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "pace" is an adverb and "pazes" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "pace" or "pazes"?
"pazes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,831 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.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "pace" and "pazes".

  • Full dictionary entry for "pace" 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 #19,483 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pace" and "pazes" 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 #19,483 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