vacinavsvaginaWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#6,484
“vacina” frequency rank
#8,702
“vagina” frequency rank
15186
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vacina vagina
Definition preparação usada como inoculação preventiva para dar imunidade contra uma doença específica e que usualmente emprega uma forma enfraquecida do agente patogênico canal do órgão sexual feminino dos mamíferos, que se estende desde o colo do útero à vulva e cujas funções são receber o pénis/pênis durante o coito e dar saída ao feto no momento do parto, assim como expulsar o conteúdo menstrual

Letter map: vacina vs vagina

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

6 ch
vacina
6 ch
vagina

Corpus notes: vacina and vagina

vacina and vagina 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 differ by a single letter - c in “vacina” becomes g in “vagina”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15186, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vacina is recorded at frequency rank #6,484, classified as anoun. vagina is at rank #8,702, tagged as anoun, pronounced /vɐ.'ʒi.nɐ/.

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 15186, this pair ranks #56,696 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vacina vs vagina

Shared letters: ainv. Private to "vacina": c. Private to "vagina": g.

"vacina" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "vagina" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vacina ← avcina · vaccina · vacian · vacinna · vacnia · vaicna · vcaina · vvacina
  • vagina ← avgina · vaggina · vagian · vaginna · vagnia · vaigna · vgaina · vvagina

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vacina" and "vagina" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by a single letter - c in “vacina” becomes g in “vagina”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "vacina" or "vagina"?
"vacina" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,484 in our Portuguese list, against #8,702 for "vagina". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "vacina" and "vagina". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vacina" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vagina" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #56,696 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vacina" and "vagina" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vacinar vs vagina". 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 #56,696 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