registarvsrevistaTell them apart

Quick tell: registar is a verb, revista is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“registar” is a verb and “revista” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,154
“registar” frequency rank
#836
“revista” frequency rank
16990
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature registar revista
Definition anotar fatos por escrito; efetuar lançamentos em livros públicos ato ou efeito de revistar

Where the eye mixes registar and revista

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. registar runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVC) against revista's 7 (CVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
registar
7 ch
revista

Look-alike desk: registar vs revista

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: registar is /Rɨ.ʒiʃ.ˈtaɾ/ while revista is /Rɨ.ˈviʃ.tɐ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16990, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

registar is recorded at frequency rank #16,154, classified as averb, pronounced /Rɨ.ʒiʃ.ˈtaɾ/. revista is at rank #836, tagged as anoun, pronounced /Rɨ.ˈviʃ.tɐ/.

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 16990, this pair ranks #54,376 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of registar vs revista

Shared letters: aeirst. Private to "registar": g. Private to "revista": v.

"registar" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "revista" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • registar ← ergistar · reggistar · regisatr · regisstar · registra · registtar · regitsar · regsitar
  • revista ← ervista · reivsta · revisat · revissta · revistta · revitsa · revsita · revvista

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "registar" and "revista" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "registar" is a verb and "revista" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "registar" or "revista"?
"revista" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #836 in our Portuguese list, against #16,154 for "registar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "registar" and "revista" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "registar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revista" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,376 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "registar" and "revista" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recitar vs registar". 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 #54,376 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