partir vs party, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“partir” is a verb and “party” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#298
“partir” frequency rank: #5,875
“party” frequency rank: 6173
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	partir	party
Definition	dividir em partes	relativo a partido

Letter map: partir vs party

Shared letters muted; letters that set partir and party apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. partir runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against party's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch

partir

5 ch

party

Grammar separator: partir vs party

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: partir is averb and partyanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6173, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

partir is recorded at frequency rank #298, classified as averb, pronounced /pɐɾ.ˈtiɾ/. 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 6173, this pair ranks #68,312 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of partir vs party

Shared letters: aprt. Private to "partir": i. Private to "party": y.

"partir" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "party" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

partir ← aprtir · paritr · parrtir · partirr · partri · parttir · patrir · ppartir
party ← aprty · parrty · partty · partyy · paryt · patry · pparty · praty

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "partir" for "party" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "partir" is a verb and "party" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "partir" vs "party" - which ranks higher?

"partir" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #298 in our Portuguese list, against #5,875 for "party". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "partir" 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 #68,312 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"partir" and "party" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "partir vs pastar". 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 #68,312 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.