reeleiçãovsreeleitoTell them apart

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

Which to use

“reeleição” is a noun and “reeleito” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#8,676
“reeleição” frequency rank
#14,220
“reeleito” frequency rank
22896
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reeleição reeleito
Definition ato de eleger um político por mais de uma vez que se elegeu para um novo mandato consecutivo

Letter map: reeleição vs reeleito

Shared letters muted; letters that set reeleição and reeleito apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. reeleição runs 9 letters (CVVCVVCVV) against reeleito's 8 (CVVCVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
reeleição
8 ch
reeleito

Part-of-speech tell for reeleição / reeleito

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reeleição is anoun and reeleitoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22896, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reeleição is recorded at frequency rank #8,676, classified as anoun. reeleito is at rank #14,220, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ʀəiˈlɐjtu/.

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 22896, this pair ranks #47,039 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reeleição vs reeleito

Shared letters: eilor. Private to "reeleição": ãç. Private to "reeleito": t.

"reeleição" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVVCVV  ·  "reeleito" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reeleito ← ereleito · reeelito · reeleiot · reeleitto · reeletio · reelieto · reelleito · releeito

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "reeleição" and "reeleito" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reeleição" is a noun and "reeleito" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "reeleição" vs "reeleito" - which ranks higher?
"reeleição" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,676 in our Portuguese list, against #14,220 for "reeleito". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "reeleição" and "reeleito". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reeleição" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reeleito" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,039 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reeleição" and "reeleito" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reeleito vs relento". 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 #47,039 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