estovsêxitoConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#22,970
“esto” frequency rank
#5,806
“êxito” frequency rank
28776
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature esto êxito
Definition agitação das águas do mar; maré; preamar resultado

Letter map: esto vs êxito

Shared letters muted; letters that set esto and êxito apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. esto runs 4 letters (VCCV) against êxito's 5 (VCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
esto
5 ch
êxito

Pair insight - esto / êxito

esto and êxito 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28776, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

esto is recorded at frequency rank #22,970, classified as anoun. êxito is at rank #5,806, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈɐj.zi.tu/.

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 28776, this pair ranks #40,010 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of esto vs êxito

Shared letters: ot. Private to "esto": es. Private to "êxito": ixê.

"esto" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "êxito" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • esto ← esot · essto · estto · etso · seto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "esto" for "êxito" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "esto" vs "êxito" - which ranks higher?
"êxito" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,806 in our Portuguese list, against #22,970 for "esto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "esto" and "êxito".

  • Full dictionary entry for "esto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "êxito" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,010 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "esto" and "êxito" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "elio vs esto". 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 #40,010 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