Which to use
“pace” is an adverb and “praça” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #29,071
- “pace” frequency rank
- #1,223
- “praça” frequency rank
- 30294
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pace | praça |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | em paz, pacificamente | espaço público e espaçoso rodeado de edifícios; rossio; mercado; circo |
Letter map: pace vs praça
Shared letters muted; letters that set pace and praça apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. pace runs 4 letters (CVCV) against praça's 5 (CCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - pace and praça
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pace is anadverb and praçaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30294, 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/. praça is at rank #1,223, 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 30294, this pair ranks #38,104 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of pace vs praça
Shared letters: ap. Private to "pace": ce. Private to "praça": rç.
"pace" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "praça" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- pace ← apce · pacce · paec · pcae · ppace
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "pace" and "praça" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "pace" vs "praça" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "pace" and "praça". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "pace" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "praça" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #38,104 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pace" and "praça" 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 #38,104 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.