Which to use
“porção” is a noun and “poucas” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,200
- “porção” frequency rank
- #2,023
- “poucas” frequency rank
- 9223
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | porção | poucas |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | parte de algo, pedaço, ração, dose: | feminino plural de pouco |
Letter map: porção vs poucas
Shared letters muted; letters that set porção and poucas apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. porção (CVCCVV) and poucas (CVVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Part-of-speech tell for porção / poucas
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: porção is anoun and poucasanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9223, 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/. poucas is at rank #2,023, 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 9223, this pair ranks #64,286 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of porção vs poucas
Shared letters: op. Private to "porção": rãç. Private to "poucas": acsu.
"porção" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "poucas" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- poucas ← opucas · pocuas · pouacs · poucass · pouccas · poucsa · ppoucas · puocas
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "porção" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "poucas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #64,286 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "porção" and "poucas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pacas vs poucas". 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 #64,286 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.