Which to use
“programação” is a noun and “programado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,828
- “programação” frequency rank
- #9,392
- “programado” frequency rank
- 11220
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | programação | programado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | ato ou efeito de programar ou planejar um evento | que se programou |
Letter map: programação vs programado
Shared letters muted; letters that set programação and programado apart highlighted. Shared run: 9.
Part-of-speech tell for programação / programado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: programação is anoun and programadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11220, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
programação is recorded at frequency rank #1,828, classified as anoun, pronounced /pɾu.ɡɾɐ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. programado is at rank #9,392, 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 11220, this pair ranks #61,686 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of programação vs programado
Shared letters: agmopr. Private to "programação": ãç. Private to "programado": d.
"programação" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCVV · "programado" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- programado ← porgramado · pprogramado · prgoramado · progarmado · proggramado · prograamdo · programaddo · programaod
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "programação" for "programado" ever safe?
Frequency check: "programação" vs "programado" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've compared "programação" and "programado". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "programação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "programado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #61,686 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "programação" and "programado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "proclamado vs programado". 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 #61,686 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.