sito
The verdict
“sito” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,723) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,723
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - situado
Corpus desk
Index PT-sito · sito · Portuguese
sito · rank #30,723 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,723
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH smoking
Nearest frequency peer: smoking (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “sito”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- rolha
rolha
69,290 corpus weight
- romaria
romaria
69,289 corpus weight
- sacerdotal
sacerdotal
69,285 corpus weight
- sito
sito
69,278 corpus weight
- smoking
smoking
69,277 corpus weight
- soberba
soberba
69,275 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sito” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sito |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sito”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sito is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "ste", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #30,723 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "situado".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sito, with forms such as "siot", "sitto", and "ssito". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "ste", "solo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is sito, spelled S-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1situado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«A moradia sita à beira-mar sofreu obras de restauro profundas.»
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- siot
- sitto
- ssito
- stio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sito - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sito", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).