Which to use
“recado” is a noun and “rodado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,673
- “recado” frequency rank
- #27,260
- “rodado” frequency rank
- 31933
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recado | rodado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | participação ou aviso (verbal ou escrito, enviado por uma pessoa a outra) | usado, gasto |
Letter map: recado vs rodado
Shared letters muted; letters that set recado and rodado apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Part-of-speech tell for recado / rodado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: recado is anoun and rodadoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31933, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recado is recorded at frequency rank #4,673, classified as anoun, pronounced /Rɨ.ˈka.du/. rodado is at rank #27,260, 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 31933, this pair ranks #36,002 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of recado vs rodado
Shared letters: ador. Private to "recado": ce. Private to "rodado": -.
"recado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "rodado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "recado" and "rodado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "recado" or "rodado" show up more?
After this comparison
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "recado" and "rodado".
- Full dictionary entry for "recado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rodado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #36,002 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recado" and "rodado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "robalo vs rodado". 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 #36,002 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.