taradovstraídoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#18,200
“tarado” frequency rank
#14,484
“traído” frequency rank
32684
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tarado traído
Definition que tem marcada a sua tara, pesado que foi vítima de traição:

Letter map: tarado vs traído

Shared letters muted; letters that set tarado and traído apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. tarado (CVCVCV) and traído (CCVVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
tarado
6 ch
traído

Corpus notes: tarado and traído

tarado and traído 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 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32684, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tarado is recorded at frequency rank #18,200, classified as anadj. traído is at rank #14,484, tagged as anadj, pronounced /tɾɐˈi.dʊ/.

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 32684, this pair ranks #35,046 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tarado vs traído

Shared letters: adort. Private to "tarado": -. Private to "traído": í.

"tarado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "traído" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "tarado" and "traído" be used interchangeably?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 3 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 "tarado" or "traído" show up more?
"traído" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,484 in our Portuguese list, against #18,200 for "tarado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "tarado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "traído" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,046 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tarado" and "traído" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "talão vs tarado". 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 #35,046 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