viabilidadevsvisibilidadeTell them apart

Which to use

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

#17,171
“viabilidade” frequency rank
#6,358
“visibilidade” frequency rank
23529
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature viabilidade visibilidade
Definition possibilidade de ser viável caráter, condição, atributo do que é ou pode ser visível, ser percebido pelo sentido da vista; visão

Letter map: viabilidade vs visibilidade

Shared letters muted; letters that set viabilidade and visibilidade apart highlighted. Shared run: 10. viabilidade runs 11 letters (CVVCVCVCVCV) against visibilidade's 12 (CVCVCVCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
viabilidade
12 ch
visibilidade

Corpus notes: viabilidade and visibilidade

viabilidade and visibilidade 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23529, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

viabilidade is recorded at frequency rank #17,171, classified as anoun. visibilidade is at rank #6,358, tagged as anoun, pronounced /vi.zi.bi.li.ˈda.dɨ/.

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 23529, this pair ranks #46,290 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of viabilidade vs visibilidade

Shared letters: abdeilv. Private to "viabilidade": -. Private to "visibilidade": s.

"viabilidade" · 11 letters · shape CVVCVCVCVCV  ·  "visibilidade" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • viabilidade ← ivabilidade · vaibilidade · viabbilidade · viabiildade · viabildiade · viabiliadde · viabilidadde · viabilidaed
  • visibilidade ← ivsibilidade · viisbilidade · visbiilidade · visibbilidade · visibiildade · visibildiade · visibiliadde · visibilidadde

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "viabilidade" for "visibilidade" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "viabilidade" or "visibilidade"?
"visibilidade" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,358 in our Portuguese list, against #17,171 for "viabilidade". 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 "viabilidade" and "visibilidade".

  • Full dictionary entry for "viabilidade" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visibilidade" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #46,290 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • 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 #46,290 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