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

#27,961
“pane” frequency rank
#16,831
“pazes” frequency rank
44792
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pane pazes
Definition defeito, quebra reconciliação, ação ou resultado da ação de fazer reestabelecida relação de amistosidade mútua

Letter map: pane vs pazes

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

4 ch
pane
5 ch
pazes

Pair insight - pane / pazes

pane and pazes 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 44792, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pane is recorded at frequency rank #27,961, classified as anoun. 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 44792, this pair ranks #20,640 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pane vs pazes

Shared letters: aep. Private to "pane": n. Private to "pazes": sz.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • paneapne · paen · panne · pnae · ppane
  • pazesapzes · paezs · pazess · pazse · pazzes · ppazes · pzaes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "pane" and "pazes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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.
Which is more common, "pane" or "pazes"?
"pazes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,831 in our Portuguese list, against #27,961 for "pane". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "pane" 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 #20,640 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pane" and "pazes" 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 #20,640 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