viajadovsviajarTell them apart

Quick tell: viajado is a adjective, viajar is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“viajado” is an adjective and “viajar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,046
“viajado” frequency rank
#2,000
“viajar” frequency rank
23046
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature viajado viajar
Definition que viajou muito; que percorreu diversas terras ou países ir de um lugar para outro, geralmente distante

Letter map: viajado vs viajar

Shared letters muted; letters that set viajado and viajar apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. viajado runs 7 letters (CVVCVCV) against viajar's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
viajado
6 ch
viajar

Role in the sentence - viajado and viajar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: viajado is anadjective and viajaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23046, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

viajado is recorded at frequency rank #21,046, classified as anadj. viajar is at rank #2,000, tagged as averb, pronounced /vjɐ.ˈʒaɾ/.

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 23046, this pair ranks #46,852 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of viajado vs viajar

Shared letters: aijv. Private to "viajado": do. Private to "viajar": r.

"viajado" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV  ·  "viajar" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • viajado ← ivajado · vaijado · viaajdo · viajaddo · viajaod · viajdao · viajjado · vijaado
  • viajar ← ivajar · vaijar · viaajr · viajarr · viajjar · viajra · vijaar · vviajar

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "viajado" and "viajar" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "viajado" is an adjective and "viajar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "viajado" or "viajar" show up more?
"viajar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,000 in our Portuguese list, against #21,046 for "viajado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "viajado" and "viajar". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "viajado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "viajar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #46,852 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "viajado" and "viajar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "viajar vs visar". 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 #46,852 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