taçavstocamWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: taça is a noun, tocam is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“taça” is a noun and “tocam” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,807
“taça” frequency rank
#12,154
“tocam” frequency rank
15961
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature taça tocam
Definition copo de forma especial, de boca larga e pouco fundo, pode ter algo de pé terceira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo tocar

Letter map: taça vs tocam

Shared letters muted; letters that set taça and tocam apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
taça
5 ch
tocam

Part-of-speech tell for taça / tocam

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: taça is anoun and tocamaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15961, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

taça is recorded at frequency rank #3,807, classified as anoun. tocam is at rank #12,154, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈtɔ.kɐ̃w̃/ [ˈtɔ.kɐ̃ʊ̯̃].

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 15961, this pair ranks #55,735 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of taça vs tocam

Shared letters: at. Private to "taça": ç. Private to "tocam": cmo.

"taça" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "tocam" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tocamotcam · tcoam · toacm · tocamm · toccam · tocma · ttocam

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "taça" and "tocam" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "taça" is a noun and "tocam" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "taça" or "tocam" show up more?
"taça" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,807 in our Portuguese list, against #12,154 for "tocam". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "taça" and "tocam". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "taça" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tocam" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #55,735 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "taça" and "tocam" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tocam vs tosa". 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 #55,735 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