sediçãovsseleçãoWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

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

#48,108
“sedição” frequency rank
#924
“seleção” frequency rank
49032
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sedição seleção
Definition sublevação contra a ordem instituída ato ou efeito de selecionar

Letter map: sedição vs seleção

Shared letters muted; letters that set sedição and seleção apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. sedição and seleção follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
sedição
7 ch
seleção

Corpus notes: sedição and seleção

sedição and seleção 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 49032, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sedição is recorded at frequency rank #48,108, classified as anoun. seleção is at rank #924, tagged as anoun, pronounced /sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.

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 49032, this pair ranks #16,047 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sedição vs seleção

Shared letters: eosãç. Private to "sedição": di. Private to "seleção": l.

"sedição" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "seleção" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sedição" for "seleção" ever safe?
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.
Frequency check: "sedição" vs "seleção" - which ranks higher?
"seleção" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #924 in our Portuguese list, against #48,108 for "sedição". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "sedição" and "seleção". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sedição" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "seleção" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #16,047 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sedição" and "seleção" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sediado vs sedição". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #16,047 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