digo vs dolo, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#1,331
“digo” frequency rank: #43,862
“dolo” frequency rank: 45193
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	digo	dolo
Definition	primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo dizer	vontade livre e consciente de realizar uma conduta tipificada na legislação penal

Letter map: digo vs dolo

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

4 ch

digo

4 ch

dolo

Grammar separator: digo vs dolo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: digo is averb and doloanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45193, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

digo is recorded at frequency rank #1,331, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈʤi.gʊ/. 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 45193, this pair ranks #20,199 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of digo vs dolo

Shared letters: do. Private to "digo": gi. Private to "dolo": l.

"digo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "dolo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

digo ← ddigo · dgio · diggo · diog · idgo
dolo ← ddolo · dloo · dollo · dool · odlo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "digo" and "dolo" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "digo" is a verb and "dolo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "digo" or "dolo" show up more?

"digo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,331 in our Portuguese list, against #43,862 for "dolo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "digo" 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 #20,199 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"digo" 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 #20,199 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.