Which to use
“deste” is a contraction and “disse” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #346
- “deste” frequency rank
- #176
- “disse” frequency rank
- 522
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | deste | disse |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | contração da preposição de com o pronome ou determinante demonstrativo este: | primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo dizer |
Letter map: deste vs disse
Shared letters muted; letters that set deste and disse apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. deste and disse follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for deste / disse
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: deste is acontraction and disseaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 522, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
deste is recorded at frequency rank #346, classified as acontraction. disse is at rank #176, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈʤi.se].
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 522, this pair ranks #75,144 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of deste vs disse
Shared letters: des. Private to "deste": t. Private to "disse": i.
"deste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "disse" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "deste" for "disse" ever safe?
Which is more common, "deste" or "disse"?
Useful next steps
Pair "deste" vs "disse" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "deste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "disse" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #75,144 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "deste" and "disse" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "deste vs destro". 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 #75,144 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.