verificaçãovsverificadoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#8,555
“verificação” frequency rank
#17,942
“verificado” frequency rank
26497
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature verificação verificado
Definition ação ou ato de verificar ato ou efeito de verificar

Letter map: verificação vs verificado

Shared letters muted; letters that set verificação and verificado apart highlighted. Shared run: 9. verificação runs 11 letters (CVCVCVCVCVV) against verificado's 10 (CVCVCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
verificação
10 ch
verificado

Grammar separator: verificação vs verificado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: verificação is anoun and verificadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26497, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

verificação is recorded at frequency rank #8,555, classified as anoun, pronounced /vɨ.ɾi.fi.kɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. verificado is at rank #17,942, 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 26497, this pair ranks #42,661 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of verificação vs verificado

Shared letters: acefiorv. Private to "verificação": ãç. Private to "verificado": d.

"verificação" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCVV  ·  "verificado" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • verificado ← evrificado · veirficado · verfiicado · verifciado · verifficado · verifiacdo · verificaddo · verificaod

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "verificação" and "verificado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "verificação" is a noun and "verificado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "verificação" vs "verificado" - which ranks higher?
"verificação" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,555 in our Portuguese list, against #17,942 for "verificado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "verificação" and "verificado".

  • Full dictionary entry for "verificação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "verificado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,661 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "verificação" and "verificado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "verificado vs verificar". 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 #42,661 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