revelado vs revelar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“revelado” is an adjective and “revelar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,473
“revelado” frequency rank: #4,516
“revelar” frequency rank: 10989
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	revelado	revelar
Definition	que sofreu revelação ou foi seu objeto	tirar o véu a

Letter map: revelado vs revelar

Shared letters muted; letters that set revelado and revelar apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. revelado runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against revelar's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch

revelado

7 ch

revelar

Grammar separator: revelado vs revelar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: revelado is anadjective and revelaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10989, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revelado is recorded at frequency rank #6,473, classified as anadj. revelar is at rank #4,516, tagged as averb, pronounced /Rɨ.vɨ.ˈlaɾ/.

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 10989, this pair ranks #61,971 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of revelado vs revelar

Shared letters: aelrv. Private to "revelado": do. Private to "revelar": -.

"revelado" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "revelar" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

revelado ← ervelado · reevlado · revealdo · reveladdo · revelaod · reveldao · revellado · revleado
revelar ← ervelar · reevlar · revealr · revelarr · revellar · revelra · revlear · revvelar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "revelado" for "revelar" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "revelado" is an adjective and "revelar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "revelado" vs "revelar" - which ranks higher?

"revelar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,516 in our Portuguese list, against #6,473 for "revelado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "revelado" and "revelar".

Full dictionary entry for "revelado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "revelar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #61,971 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"revelado" and "revelar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "renegar vs revelar". 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 #61,971 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.