dolovsdrogoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#43,862
“dolo” frequency rank
#49,423
“drogo” frequency rank
93285
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: dolo vs drogo

Shared letters muted; letters that set dolo and drogo apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. dolo runs 4 letters (CVCV) against drogo's 5 (CCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
dolo
5 ch
drogo

Part-of-speech tell for dolo / drogo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: dolo is anoun and drogoaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 93285, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dolo is recorded at frequency rank #43,862, classified as anoun. drogo is at rank #49,423, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈdɾɔ.gʊ/.

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 93285, this pair ranks #137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of dolo vs drogo

Shared letters: do. Private to "dolo": l. Private to "drogo": gr.

"dolo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "drogo" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dolo ← ddolo · dloo · dollo · dool · odlo
  • drogo ← ddrogo · dorgo · drgoo · droggo · droog · drrogo · rdogo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "dolo" and "drogo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dolo" is a noun and "drogo" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "dolo" or "drogo"?
"dolo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #43,862 in our Portuguese list, against #49,423 for "drogo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "dolo" vs "drogo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dolo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "drogo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dolo" and "drogo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dodo 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 #137 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