venvsvendaWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

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

#33,656
“ven” frequency rank
#1,763
“venda” frequency rank
35419
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ven venda
Definition veia ato ou efeito de vender

Letter map: ven vs venda

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

3 ch
ven
5 ch
venda

Corpus notes: ven and venda

ven and venda 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 2 extra letter(s) - “ven” sits inside “venda”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35419, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ven is recorded at frequency rank #33,656, classified as anoun. venda is at rank #1,763, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈvẽ.dɐ/.

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 35419, this pair ranks #31,645 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ven vs venda

Shared letters: env. Private to "ven": -. Private to "venda": ad.

"ven" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "venda" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • venda ← evnda · vedna · venad · vendda · vennda · vneda · vvenda

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ven" for "venda" ever safe?
No. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “ven” sits inside “venda”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "ven" vs "venda" - which ranks higher?
"venda" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,763 in our Portuguese list, against #33,656 for "ven". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "ven" and "venda". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ven" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "venda" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,645 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ven" and "venda" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo vs ven". 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 #31,645 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