Which to use
“sábado” is a noun and “sagrado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #880
- “sábado” frequency rank
- #4,429
- “sagrado” frequency rank
- 5309
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sábado | sagrado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | sexto dia da semana pela norma ISO 8601, posterior à sexta-feira e anterior ao domingo; por fundamentação bíblica e etimológica, é considerado o último dia da semana | que se sagrou |
Where the eye mixes sábado and sagrado
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. sábado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against sagrado's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: sábado vs sagrado
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: sábado is /ˈsa.bɐ.dʊ/ while sagrado is /sɐ.ˈɡɾa.du/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5309, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sábado is recorded at frequency rank #880, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈsa.bɐ.dʊ/. sagrado is at rank #4,429, tagged as anadj, pronounced /sɐ.ˈɡɾa.du/.
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 5309, this pair ranks #69,334 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of sábado vs sagrado
Shared letters: ados. Private to "sábado": bá. Private to "sagrado": gr.
"sábado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "sagrado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- sagrado ← asgrado · sagardo · saggrado · sagraddo · sagraod · sagrdao · sagrrado · sargado
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "sábado" for "sagrado" ever safe?
Frequency check: "sábado" vs "sagrado" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "sábado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sagrado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #69,334 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sábado" and "sagrado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sagrado vs sarado". 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 #69,334 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.