visitvsvisitarConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#38,085
“visit” frequency rank
#1,693
“visitar” frequency rank
39778
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visit visitar
Definition visitar ir e ficar (com uma pessoa ou família) por um curto período de tempo por questão de sociabilidade, polidez, negócios, curiosidade, etc.

Letter map: visit vs visitar

Shared letters muted; letters that set visit and visitar apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

5 ch
visit
7 ch
visitar

Corpus notes: visit and visitar

visit and visitar 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) - “visit” sits inside “visitar”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39778, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visit is recorded at frequency rank #38,085, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈvɪzɪt/. visitar is at rank #1,693, tagged as averb.

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 39778, this pair ranks #26,425 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of visit vs visitar

Shared letters: istv. Private to "visit": -. Private to "visitar": ar.

"visit" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "visitar" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visitivsit · viist · visitt · vissit · visti · vsiit · vvisit
  • visitarivsitar · viistar · visiatr · visitarr · visitra · visittar · vissitar · vistiar

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "visit" and "visitar" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “visit” sits inside “visitar”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "visit" or "visitar" show up more?
"visitar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,693 in our Portuguese list, against #38,085 for "visit". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "visit" and "visitar".

  • Full dictionary entry for "visit" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visitar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #26,425 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visit" and "visitar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visar vs visit". 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 #26,425 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