voltadovsvontadeConfusable pair

Quick tell: voltado is a adjective, vontade is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#5,054
“voltado” frequency rank
#692
“vontade” frequency rank
5746
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature voltado vontade
Definition orientado a faculdade de agir em consciência e deliberadamente; o poder de controle que a mente tem sobre suas próprias ações

Letter map: voltado vs vontade

Shared letters muted; letters that set voltado and vontade apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
voltado
7 ch
vontade

Part-of-speech tell for voltado / vontade

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: voltado is anadjective and vontadeanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5746, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

voltado is recorded at frequency rank #5,054, classified as anadj. vontade is at rank #692, tagged as anoun, pronounced /võ.ˈta.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 5746, this pair ranks #68,816 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of voltado vs vontade

Shared letters: adotv. Private to "voltado": l. Private to "vontade": en.

"voltado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "vontade" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voltadoovltado · vlotado · volatdo · volltado · voltaddo · voltaod · voltdao · volttado
  • vontadeovntade · vnotade · vonatde · vonntade · vontadde · vontaed · vontdae · vonttade

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "voltado" for "vontade" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "voltado" is an adjective and "vontade" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "voltado" vs "vontade" - which ranks higher?
"vontade" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #692 in our Portuguese list, against #5,054 for "voltado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "voltado" and "vontade". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "voltado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vontade" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,816 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "voltado" and "vontade" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velado vs voltado". 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 #68,816 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