Which to use
“porção” is a noun and “porco” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,200
- “porção” frequency rank
- #5,878
- “porco” frequency rank
- 13078
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | porção | porco |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | parte de algo, pedaço, ração, dose: | que é muito sujo, imundo |
Where the eye mixes porção and porco
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. porção runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against porco's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: porção vs porco
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: porção is /puɾ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ while porco is /ˈpoɾ.ku/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13078, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
porção is recorded at frequency rank #7,200, classified as anoun, pronounced /puɾ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. porco is at rank #5,878, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈpoɾ.ku/.
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 13078, this pair ranks #59,364 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of porção vs porco
Shared letters: opr. Private to "porção": ãç. Private to "porco": c.
"porção" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "porco" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- porco ← oprco · pocro · porcco · poroc · porrco · pporco · proco
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "porção" and "porco" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "porção" or "porco"?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "porção" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "porco" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #59,364 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "porção" and "porco" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pomo vs porco". 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 #59,364 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.