Which to use
“travado” is an adjective and “travar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #19,579
- “travado” frequency rank
- #10,978
- “travar” frequency rank
- 30557
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | travado | travar |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | que está impossibilitado de se mover | fazer parar com o travão, frear |
Letter map: travado vs travar
Shared letters muted; letters that set travado and travar apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. travado runs 7 letters (CCVCVCV) against travar's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for travado / travar
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: travado is anadjective and travaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30557, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
travado is recorded at frequency rank #19,579, classified as anadj. travar is at rank #10,978, tagged as averb, pronounced /tɾɐ.ˈvaɾ/.
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 30557, this pair ranks #37,751 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of travado vs travar
Shared letters: artv. Private to "travado": do. Private to "travar": -.
"travado" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV · "travar" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "travado" and "travar" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "travado" or "travar"?
After this comparison
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "travado" and "travar".
- Full dictionary entry for "travado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "travar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #37,751 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "travado" and "travar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "travado 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 #37,751 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.