dalivsdoloTell them apart

Quick tell: dali is a contraction, dolo is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“dali” is a contraction and “dolo” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,049
“dali” frequency rank
#43,862
“dolo” frequency rank
49911
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dali dolo
Definition contração da preposição de com o advérbio de lugar ali: vontade livre e consciente de realizar uma conduta tipificada na legislação penal

Letter map: dali vs dolo

Shared letters muted; letters that set dali and dolo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
dali
4 ch
dolo

Part-of-speech tell for dali / dolo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: dali is acontraction and doloanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49911, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dali is recorded at frequency rank #6,049, classified as acontraction. dolo is at rank #43,862, tagged as anoun.

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 49911, this pair ranks #15,073 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of dali vs dolo

Shared letters: dl. Private to "dali": ai. Private to "dolo": o.

"dali" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "dolo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • daliadli · dail · dalli · ddali · dlai
  • doloddolo · dloo · dollo · dool · odlo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "dali" and "dolo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dali" is a contraction and "dolo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "dali" or "dolo"?
"dali" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,049 in our Portuguese list, against #43,862 for "dolo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "dali" and "dolo".

  • Full dictionary entry for "dali" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dolo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #15,073 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dali" and "dolo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dolo vs drogo". 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 #15,073 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