panevsparteConfusable pair

Which to use

“pane” and “parte” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#27,961
“pane” frequency rank
#114
“parte” frequency rank
28075
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pane parte
Definition defeito, quebra porção de um todo

Letter map: pane vs parte

Shared letters muted; letters that set pane and parte apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. pane runs 4 letters (CVCV) against parte's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
pane
5 ch
parte

Pair insight - pane / parte

pane and parte are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28075, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pane is recorded at frequency rank #27,961, classified as anoun. parte is at rank #114, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈpaɾ.tɨ/, /ˈpaɾt/.

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 28075, this pair ranks #40,796 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pane vs parte

Shared letters: aep. Private to "pane": n. Private to "parte": rt.

"pane" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "parte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pane ← apne · paen · panne · pnae · ppane
  • parte ← aprte · paret · parrte · partte · patre · pparte · prate

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "pane" and "parte" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "pane" vs "parte" - which ranks higher?
"parte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #114 in our Portuguese list, against #27,961 for "pane". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "pane" and "parte". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "pane" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "parte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,796 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pane" and "parte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pale vs pane". 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 #40,796 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