programaçãovsprogramadoTell them apart

Quick tell: programação is a noun, programado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

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.

11 ch
programação
10 ch
programado

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

  • programadoporgramado · pprogramado · prgoramado · progarmado · proggramado · prograamdo · programaddo · programaod

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "programação" for "programado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "programação" is a noun and "programado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "programação" vs "programado" - which ranks higher?
"programação" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,828 in our Portuguese list, against #9,392 for "programado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list