searavssextaWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“seara” and “sexta” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#23,819
“seara” frequency rank
#796
“sexta” frequency rank
24615
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature seara sexta
Definition campo de cereais o mesmo que sexta-feira

Letter map: seara vs sexta

Shared letters muted; letters that set seara and sexta apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
seara
5 ch
sexta

Spelling & dictionary notes on seara vs sexta

seara and sexta are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24615, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

seara is recorded at frequency rank #23,819, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈsja.ɾɐ/. sexta is at rank #796, tagged as anoun.

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 24615, this pair ranks #44,951 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of seara vs sexta

Shared letters: aes. Private to "seara": r. Private to "sexta": tx.

"seara" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "sexta" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • searaesara · saera · seaar · searra · seraa · sseara
  • sextaesxta · setxa · sexat · sextta · sexxta · ssexta · sxeta

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "seara" and "sexta" be used interchangeably?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "seara" or "sexta" show up more?
"sexta" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #796 in our Portuguese list, against #23,819 for "seara". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "seara" and "sexta". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "seara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sexta" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #44,951 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "seara" and "sexta" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "seara vs senda". 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 #44,951 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