Which to use
“parte” is a noun and “party” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #114
- “parte” frequency rank
- #5,875
- “party” frequency rank
- 5989
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | parte | party |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | porção de um todo | relativo a partido |
Letter map: parte vs party
Shared letters muted; letters that set parte and party apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. parte and party follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for parte / party
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: parte is anoun and partyanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “parte” becomes y in “party”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5989, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
parte is recorded at frequency rank #114, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈpaɾ.tɨ/, /ˈpaɾt/. party is at rank #5,875, tagged as anadj.
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 5989, this pair ranks #68,550 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of parte vs party
Shared letters: aprt. Private to "parte": e. Private to "party": y.
"parte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "party" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "parte" and "party" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "parte" or "party"?
Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "parte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "party" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #68,550 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "parte" and "party" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pale vs parte". 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 #68,550 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.