RegistervsrevistarTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#29,120
“Register” frequency rank
#25,806
“revistar” frequency rank
54926
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Register revistar
Definition lista vasculhar em busca de algo

Letter map: Register vs revistar

Shared letters muted; letters that set Register and revistar apart highlighted. Shared run: 6.

8 ch
Register
8 ch
revistar

Part-of-speech tell for Register / revistar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Register is anoun and revistaraverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54926, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Register is recorded at frequency rank #29,120, classified as anoun, pronounced /reˈɡɪstɐ/. revistar is at rank #25,806, tagged as averb.

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 54926, this pair ranks #10,928 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Register vs revistar

Shared letters: eirst. Private to "Register": g. Private to "revistar": av.

"Register" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "revistar" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Registerergister · reggister · regisetr · regisster · registerr · registter · regitser · regsiter
  • revistarervistar · reivstar · revisatr · revisstar · revistarr · revistra · revisttar · revitsar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Register" for "revistar" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Register" is a noun and "revistar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "Register" or "revistar" show up more?
"revistar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,806 in our Portuguese list, against #29,120 for "Register". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "Register" vs "revistar" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Register" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revistar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #10,928 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Register" and "revistar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recitar vs revistar". 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 #10,928 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