ileso vs isso, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“ileso” is an adjective and “isso” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,340
“ileso” frequency rank: #40
“isso” frequency rank: 25380
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ileso	isso
Definition	que não é ou não está leso; que ficou incólume	essa coisa ou esse assunto; essas coisas; esses assuntos

Letter map: ileso vs isso

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

5 ch

ileso

4 ch

isso

Grammar separator: ileso vs isso

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ileso is anadjective and issoapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25380, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ileso is recorded at frequency rank #25,340, classified as anadj. isso is at rank #40, tagged as apron.

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 25380, this pair ranks #43,950 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ileso vs isso

Shared letters: ios. Private to "ileso": el. Private to "isso": -.

"ileso" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV · "isso" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

ileso ← ielso · ileos · ilesso · illeso · ilseo · lieso
isso ← iso · isos · siso

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ileso" and "isso" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ileso" is an adjective and "isso" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "ileso" vs "isso" - which ranks higher?

"isso" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40 in our Portuguese list, against #25,340 for "ileso". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "ileso" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "isso" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #43,950 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ileso" and "isso" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ileso vs ils". 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 #43,950 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.