dolovsdutoTell them apart

Which to use

“dolo” and “duto” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#43,862
“dolo” frequency rank
#35,558
“duto” frequency rank
79420
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dolo duto
Definition vontade livre e consciente de realizar uma conduta tipificada na legislação penal cano (peça cilíndrica oca)

Letter map: dolo vs duto

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

4 ch
dolo
4 ch
duto

Corpus notes: dolo and duto

dolo and duto are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79420, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dolo is recorded at frequency rank #43,862, classified as anoun. 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 79420, this pair ranks #1,510 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of dolo vs duto

Shared letters: do. Private to "dolo": l. Private to "duto": tu.

"dolo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "duto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • doloddolo · dloo · dollo · dool · odlo
  • dutodduto · dtuo · duot · dutto · udto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "dolo" for "duto" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "dolo" vs "duto" - which ranks higher?
"duto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,558 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.

After this comparison

You've compared "dolo" and "duto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dolo" 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 #1,510 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dolo" and "duto" 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 #1,510 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