relaçãovsremoçãoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#381
“relação” frequency rank
#5,680
“remoção” frequency rank
6061
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relação remoção
Definition relacionamento ato ou efeito de remover

Letter map: relação vs remoção

Shared letters muted; letters that set relação and remoção apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. relação and remoção follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
relação
7 ch
remoção

Corpus notes: relação and remoção

relação and remoção 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6061, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relação is recorded at frequency rank #381, classified as anoun. remoção is at rank #5,680, tagged as anoun, pronounced /Rɨ.mu.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.

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 6061, this pair ranks #68,453 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of relação vs remoção

Shared letters: eorãç. Private to "relação": al. Private to "remoção": m.

"relação" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "remoção" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "relação" and "remoção" be used interchangeably?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "relação" or "remoção" show up more?
"relação" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #381 in our Portuguese list, against #5,680 for "remoção". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "relação" vs "remoção" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "relação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remoção" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,453 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relação" and "remoção" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "refração vs relação". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #68,453 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