privado vs privar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,700
“privado” frequency rank: #27,982
“privar” frequency rank: 30682
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	privado	privar
Definition	que não é público	tirar a propriedade de

Letter map: privado vs privar

Shared letters muted; letters that set privado and privar apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. privado runs 7 letters (CCVCVCV) against privar's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch

privado

6 ch

privar

Grammar separator: privado vs privar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: privado is anadjective and privaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30682, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

privado is recorded at frequency rank #2,700, classified as anadj. privar is at rank #27,982, tagged as averb, pronounced /pɾi.ˈvaɾ/.

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 30682, this pair ranks #37,599 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of privado vs privar

Shared letters: aiprv. Private to "privado": do. Private to "privar": -.

"privado" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV · "privar" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

privado ← pirvado · pprivado · priavdo · privaddo · privaod · privdao · privvado · prrivado
privar ← pirvar · pprivar · priavr · privarr · privra · privvar · prrivar · prviar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "privado" and "privar" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "privado" or "privar"?

"privado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,700 in our Portuguese list, against #27,982 for "privar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "privado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "privar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #37,599 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"privado" and "privar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "picar vs privar". 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 #37,599 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.