partevsposteWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#114
“parte” frequency rank
#7,683
“poste” frequency rank
7797
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature parte poste
Definition porção de um todo grande e alongado cilindro de madeira, cimento ou outro material e que é usado para sustentar fios elétricos, lâmpadas, etc

Letter map: parte vs poste

Shared letters muted; letters that set parte and poste apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
parte
5 ch
poste

Pair insight - parte / poste

parte and poste 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7797, 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/. poste is at rank #7,683, 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 7797, this pair ranks #66,250 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of parte vs poste

Shared letters: ept. Private to "parte": ar. Private to "poste": os.

"parte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "poste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • parteaprte · paret · parrte · partte · patre · pparte · prate
  • posteopste · poset · posste · postte · potse · pposte · psote

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "parte" and "poste" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "parte" vs "poste" - which ranks higher?
"parte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #114 in our Portuguese list, against #7,683 for "poste". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "parte" vs "poste" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "parte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "poste" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #66,250 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "parte" and "poste" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pont vs poste". 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 #66,250 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