recomendadovsrecompensadoConfusable pair

Which to use

“recomendado” and “recompensado” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,825
“recomendado” frequency rank
#23,799
“recompensado” frequency rank
37624
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recomendado recompensado
Definition que se recomendou que recebeu recompensa

Letter map: recomendado vs recompensado

Shared letters muted; letters that set recomendado and recompensado apart highlighted. Shared run: 10. recomendado runs 11 letters (CVCVCVCCVCV) against recompensado's 12 (CVCVCCVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
recomendado
12 ch
recompensado

Pair insight - recomendado / recompensado

recomendado and recompensado are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37624, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recomendado is recorded at frequency rank #13,825, classified as anadj. recompensado is at rank #23,799, 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 37624, this pair ranks #28,947 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recomendado vs recompensado

Shared letters: acdemnor. Private to "recomendado": -. Private to "recompensado": ps.

"recomendado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCV  ·  "recompensado" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recomendado ← ercomendado · rceomendado · reccomendado · recmoendado · recoemndado · recomednado · recomenaddo · recomendaddo
  • recompensado ← ercompensado · rceompensado · reccompensado · recmopensado · recomepnsado · recommpensado · recompenasdo · recompennsado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "recomendado" and "recompensado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "recomendado" vs "recompensado" - which ranks higher?
"recomendado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,825 in our Portuguese list, against #23,799 for "recompensado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "recomendado" and "recompensado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "recomendado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recompensado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,947 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recomendado" and "recompensado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recompensado 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 #28,947 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