Which to use
“revista” is a noun and “revistar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #836
- “revista” frequency rank
- #25,806
- “revistar” frequency rank
- 26642
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | revista | revistar |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | ato ou efeito de revistar | vasculhar em busca de algo |
Letter map: revista vs revistar
Shared letters muted; letters that set revista and revistar apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. revista runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against revistar's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for revista / revistar
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: revista is anoun and revistaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “revista” sits inside “revistar”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26642, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
revista is recorded at frequency rank #836, classified as anoun, pronounced /Rɨ.ˈviʃ.tɐ/. 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 26642, this pair ranks #42,465 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of revista vs revistar
Shared letters: aeirstv. Private to "revista": -. Private to "revistar": -.
"revista" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "revistar" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "revista" and "revistar" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "revista" or "revistar" show up more?
After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "revista" 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 #42,465 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "revista" 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 #42,465 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.