pesada vs pessoa, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#4,943
“pesada” frequency rank: #235
“pessoa” frequency rank: 5178
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	pesada	pessoa
Definition	feminino do adjetivo pesado	indivíduo consciente de si e distinto dos demais

Letter map: pesada vs pessoa

Shared letters muted; letters that set pesada and pessoa apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch

pesada

6 ch

pessoa

Role in the sentence - pesada and pessoa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pesada is anadjective and pessoaanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5178, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pesada is recorded at frequency rank #4,943, classified as anadj. pessoa is at rank #235, tagged as anoun, pronounced /pɨ.ˈso.ɐ/.

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 5178, this pair ranks #69,511 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of pesada vs pessoa

Shared letters: aeps. Private to "pesada": d. Private to "pessoa": o.

"pesada" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "pessoa" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

pesada ← peasda · pesaad · pesadda · pesdaa · pessada · ppesada · pseada
pessoa ← epssoa · pesoa · pesosa · pessao · ppessoa · psesoa

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "pesada" and "pessoa" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "pesada" or "pessoa"?

"pessoa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #235 in our Portuguese list, against #4,943 for "pesada". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "pesada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "pessoa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #69,511 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"pesada" and "pessoa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pesada vs pétala". 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 #69,511 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.