dolosovsdonosTell them apart

Quick tell: doloso is a adjective, donos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“doloso” is an adjective and “donos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#32,953
“doloso” frequency rank
#5,000
“donos” frequency rank
37953
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature doloso donos
Definition em que há dolo ou que foi causado por dolo forma plural de dono:

Letter map: doloso vs donos

Shared letters muted; letters that set doloso and donos apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. doloso runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against donos's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
doloso
5 ch
donos

Part-of-speech tell for doloso / donos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: doloso is anadjective and donosanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37953, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

doloso is recorded at frequency rank #32,953, classified as anadj. donos is at rank #5,000, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈdo.nʊs/.

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 37953, this pair ranks #28,580 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of doloso vs donos

Shared letters: dos. Private to "doloso": l. Private to "donos": n.

"doloso" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "donos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • doloso ← ddoloso · dlooso · dolloso · doloos · dolosso · dolsoo · doolso · odloso
  • donos ← ddonos · dnoos · donnos · donoss · donso · doons · odnos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "doloso" for "donos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "doloso" is an adjective and "donos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "doloso" or "donos"?
"donos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,000 in our Portuguese list, against #32,953 for "doloso". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "doloso" vs "donos" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "doloso" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "donos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,580 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "doloso" and "donos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dolo vs doloso". 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 #28,580 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