isso vs issue, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#40
“isso” frequency rank: #24,694
“issue” frequency rank: 24734
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	isso	issue
Definition	essa coisa ou esse assunto; essas coisas; esses assuntos	saída, lugar por onde se sai, se passa

Letter map: isso vs issue

Shared letters muted; letters that set isso and issue apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

isso

5 ch

issue

Grammar separator: isso vs issue

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: isso is apronoun and issueanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24734, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

isso is recorded at frequency rank #40, classified as apron. issue is at rank #24,694, tagged as anoun.

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 24734, this pair ranks #44,793 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of isso vs issue

Shared letters: is. Private to "isso": o. Private to "issue": eu.

"isso" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "issue" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

isso ← iso · isos · siso
issue ← isseu · isue · isuse · sisue

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "isso" for "issue" ever safe?

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

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

"isso" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40 in our Portuguese list, against #24,694 for "issue". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "isso" and "issue". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "isso" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "issue" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #44,793 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"isso" and "issue" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ino vs isso". 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 #44,793 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.