rodadovsrodapéWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: rodado is a adjective, rodapé is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#27,260
“rodado” frequency rank
#20,431
“rodapé” frequency rank
47691
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rodado rodapé
Definition usado, gasto espécie de cortina que pende das bordas de uma cama ou de uma marquesa até o pavimento

Letter map: rodado vs rodapé

Shared letters muted; letters that set rodado and rodapé apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. rodado and rodapé follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
rodado
6 ch
rodapé

Part-of-speech tell for rodado / rodapé

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rodado is anadjective and rodapéanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47691, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rodado is recorded at frequency rank #27,260, classified as anadj. rodapé is at rank #20,431, tagged as anoun, pronounced /Rɔ.dɐ.ˈpɛ/.

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 47691, this pair ranks #17,542 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rodado vs rodapé

Shared letters: ador. Private to "rodado": -. Private to "rodapé": pé.

"rodado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "rodapé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rodado ← ordado · rdoado · roaddo · rodaddo · rodaod · roddado · roddao · rrodado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rodado" and "rodapé" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rodado" is an adjective and "rodapé" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "rodado" vs "rodapé" - which ranks higher?
"rodapé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,431 in our Portuguese list, against #27,260 for "rodado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "rodado" and "rodapé". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rodado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rodapé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #17,542 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rodado" and "rodapé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "robalo vs rodado". 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 #17,542 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