Which to use
“violence” is a noun and “violento” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #33,227
- “violence” frequency rank
- #6,488
- “violento” frequency rank
- 39715
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | violence | violento |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | violência | exercido com força |
Where the eye mixes violence and violento
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. violence and violento follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses violence with violento
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: violence is /vjɔ.lɑ̃s/, X-SAMPA: /vjOlA~s/ while violento is /vju.ˈlẽ.tu/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39715, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
violence is recorded at frequency rank #33,227, classified as anoun, pronounced /vjɔ.lɑ̃s/, X-SAMPA: /vjOlA~s/. violento is at rank #6,488, tagged as anadj, pronounced /vju.ˈlẽ.tu/.
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 39715, this pair ranks #26,484 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of violence vs violento
Shared letters: eilnov. Private to "violence": c. Private to "violento": t.
"violence" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCV · "violento" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "violence" and "violento" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "violence" or "violento" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "violence" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "violento" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #26,484 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "violence" and "violento" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "violence vs violência". 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 #26,484 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.