seatvsseçãoConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#34,459
“seat” frequency rank
#2,496
“seção” frequency rank
36955
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature seat seção
Definition cadeira (lugar ocupado por membro de uma corporação) subdivisão de um capítulo, obra, tratado ou estudo

Letter map: seat vs seção

Shared letters muted; letters that set seat and seção apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. seat runs 4 letters (CVVC) against seção's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
seat
5 ch
seção

Spelling & dictionary notes on seat vs seção

seat and seção 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36955, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

seat is recorded at frequency rank #34,459, classified as anoun, pronounced /siːt/. seção is at rank #2,496, 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 36955, this pair ranks #29,762 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of seat vs seção

Shared letters: es. Private to "seat": at. Private to "seção": oãç.

"seat" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "seção" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • seat ← esat · saet · seatt · sseat

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "seat" and "seção" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "seat" vs "seção" - which ranks higher?
"seção" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,496 in our Portuguese list, against #34,459 for "seat". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "seat" vs "seção" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "seat" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "seção" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,762 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "seat" and "seção" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "seat vs soap". 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 #29,762 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