silovssuyoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: silo is a noun, suyo is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“silo” is a noun and “suyo” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#35,260
“silo” frequency rank
#2,426
“suyo” frequency rank
37686
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature silo suyo
Definition Recinto cerrado para el depósito de grano Pronombre posesivo de tercera persona en género masculino y femenino y ambos números singular y plural.

Where the eye mixes silo and suyo

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
silo
4 ch
suyo

Look-alike desk: silo vs suyo

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: silo is [ˈsilo] while suyo is [ˈsuʝo]. 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 pronoun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37686, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

silo is recorded at frequency rank #35,260, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈsilo]. suyo is at rank #2,426, tagged as apron, pronounced [ˈsuʝo].

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 37686, this pair ranks #174,004 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of silo vs suyo

Shared letters: os. Private to "silo": il. Private to "suyo": uy.

"silo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "suyo" · 4 letters · shape CVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • silocilo · islo · sillo · siol · slio · ssilo
  • suyossuyo · suoy · suyyo · syuo · usyo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "silo" for "suyo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "silo" is a noun and "suyo" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "silo" or "suyo" show up more?
"suyo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,426 in our Spanish list, against #35,260 for "silo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "silo" and "suyo" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "silo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "suyo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #174,004 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "silo" and "suyo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sila vs silo". 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 #174,004 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list