disto vs duto, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#3,761
“disto” frequency rank: #35,558
“duto” frequency rank: 39319
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	disto	duto
Definition	contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isto:	cano (peça cilíndrica oca)

Letter map: disto vs duto

Shared letters muted; letters that set disto and duto apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

disto

4 ch

duto

Grammar separator: disto vs duto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: disto is acontraction and dutoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39319, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

disto is recorded at frequency rank #3,761, classified as acontraction. duto is at rank #35,558, tagged as anoun, pronounced /'du.tʊ/..

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 39319, this pair ranks #26,964 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of disto vs duto

Shared letters: dot. Private to "disto": is. Private to "duto": u.

"disto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "duto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

disto ← ddisto · disot · dissto · distto · ditso · dsito · idsto
duto ← dduto · dtuo · duot · dutto · udto

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "disto" and "duto" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Frequency check: "disto" vs "duto" - which ranks higher?

"disto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,761 in our Portuguese list, against #35,558 for "duto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "disto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "duto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #26,964 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"disto" and "duto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dat vs duto". 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 #26,964 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.