recomendadovsrecomendarWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: recomendado is a adjective, recomendar is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#13,825
“recomendado” frequency rank
#15,904
“recomendar” frequency rank
29729
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recomendado recomendar
Definition que se recomendou encarregar alguém de

Letter map: recomendado vs recomendar

Shared letters muted; letters that set recomendado and recomendar apart highlighted. Shared run: 9. recomendado runs 11 letters (CVCVCVCCVCV) against recomendar's 10 (CVCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
recomendado
10 ch
recomendar

Role in the sentence - recomendado and recomendar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: recomendado is anadjective and recomendaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29729, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recomendado is recorded at frequency rank #13,825, classified as anadj. recomendar is at rank #15,904, tagged as averb, pronounced /Rɨ.ku.mẽ.ˈdaɾ/.

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 29729, this pair ranks #38,841 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recomendado vs recomendar

Shared letters: acdemnor. Private to "recomendado": -. Private to "recomendar": -.

"recomendado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCV  ·  "recomendar" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recomendado ← ercomendado · rceomendado · reccomendado · recmoendado · recoemndado · recomednado · recomenaddo · recomendaddo
  • recomendar ← ercomendar · rceomendar · reccomendar · recmoendar · recoemndar · recomednar · recomenadr · recomendarr

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "recomendado" and "recomendar" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "recomendado" is an adjective and "recomendar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "recomendado" or "recomendar"?
"recomendado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,825 in our Portuguese list, against #15,904 for "recomendar". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "recomendado" and "recomendar".

  • Full dictionary entry for "recomendado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recomendar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #38,841 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recomendado" and "recomendar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recomendar vs recompensar". 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 #38,841 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