rodado vs rodar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#27,260
“rodado” frequency rank: #10,266
“rodar” frequency rank: 37526
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	rodado	rodar
Definition	usado, gasto	fazer andar à roda (transitivo)

Letter map: rodado vs rodar

Shared letters muted; letters that set rodado and rodar apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch

rodado

5 ch

rodar

Grammar separator: rodado vs rodar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rodado is anadjective and rodaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37526, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rodado is recorded at frequency rank #27,260, classified as anadj. rodar is at rank #10,266, tagged as averb, pronounced /Ru.ˈdaɾ/.

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 37526, this pair ranks #29,078 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rodado vs rodar

Shared letters: ador. Private to "rodado": -. Private to "rodar": -.

"rodado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "rodar" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

rodado ← ordado · rdoado · roaddo · rodaddo · rodaod · roddado · roddao · rrodado
rodar ← ordar · rdoar · roadr · rodarr · roddar · rodra · rrodar

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rodado" and "rodar" be used interchangeably?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "rodado" or "rodar" show up more?

"rodar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,266 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.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "rodado" and "rodar".

Full dictionary entry for "rodado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "rodar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #29,078 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"rodado" and "rodar" 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 #29,078 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.