relaçãovsrelatadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#381
“relação” frequency rank
#9,241
“relatado” frequency rank
9622
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relação relatado
Definition relacionamento que se relatou

Letter map: relação vs relatado

Shared letters muted; letters that set relação and relatado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. relação runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against relatado's 8 (CVCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
relação
8 ch
relatado

Grammar separator: relação vs relatado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: relação is anoun and relatadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9622, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relação is recorded at frequency rank #381, classified as anoun. relatado is at rank #9,241, tagged as anadj, pronounced /xe.la.ˈta.du/ [he.la.ˈta.du].

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 9622, this pair ranks #63,751 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of relação vs relatado

Shared letters: aelor. Private to "relação": ãç. Private to "relatado": dt.

"relação" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "relatado" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • relatado ← erlatado · realtado · relaatdo · relataddo · relataod · relatdao · relattado · rellatado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "relação" and "relatado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "relação" is a noun and "relatado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "relação" or "relatado" show up more?
"relação" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #381 in our Portuguese list, against #9,241 for "relatado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "relação" and "relatado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "relação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "relatado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #63,751 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relação" and "relatado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "refração vs relação". 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 #63,751 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