partovspartyTell them apart

Quick tell: parto is a noun, party is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#3,925
“parto” frequency rank
#5,875
“party” frequency rank
9800
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature parto party
Definition o ato de dar à luz, o ato de parir relativo a partido

Letter map: parto vs party

Shared letters muted; letters that set parto and party apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. parto and party follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
parto
5 ch
party

Part-of-speech tell for parto / party

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: parto is anoun and partyanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - o in “parto” becomes y in “party”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9800, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

parto is recorded at frequency rank #3,925, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈpaɾ.tu/. 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 9800, this pair ranks #63,515 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of parto vs party

Shared letters: aprt. Private to "parto": o. Private to "party": y.

"parto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "party" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • parto ← aprto · parot · parrto · partto · patro · pparto
  • party ← aprty · parrty · partty · partyy · paryt · patry · pparty · praty

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "parto" and "party" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "parto" is a noun and "party" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "parto" or "party" show up more?
"parto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,925 in our Portuguese list, against #5,875 for "party". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "parto" vs "party" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "parto" 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 #63,515 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "parto" and "party" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "parto vs Pluto". 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 #63,515 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