talãovstaradoTell them apart

Quick tell: talão is a noun, tarado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“talão” is a noun and “tarado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,612
“talão” frequency rank
#18,200
“tarado” frequency rank
62812
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature talão tarado
Definition bloco de folhas destacáveis que tem marcada a sua tara, pesado

Letter map: talão vs tarado

Shared letters muted; letters that set talão and tarado apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. talão runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against tarado's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
talão
6 ch
tarado

Role in the sentence - talão and tarado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: talão is anoun and taradoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62812, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

talão is recorded at frequency rank #44,612, classified as anoun, pronounced /tɐ.ˈlɐ̃w̃/. tarado is at rank #18,200, tagged as anadj.

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 62812, this pair ranks #6,485 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of talão vs tarado

Shared letters: aot. Private to "talão": lã. Private to "tarado": dr.

"talão" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "tarado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tarado ← atrado · taardo · taraddo · taraod · tardao · tarrado · traado · ttarado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "talão" and "tarado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "talão" is a noun and "tarado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "talão" or "tarado"?
"tarado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,200 in our Portuguese list, against #44,612 for "talão". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "talão" and "tarado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "talão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tarado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #6,485 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "talão" and "tarado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "talão vs travão". 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 #6,485 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