laço vs las, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#9,518
“laço” frequency rank: #852
“las” frequency rank: 10370
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	laço	las
Definition	nó que se desata facilmente	as, pronome demonstrativo

Letter map: laço vs las

Shared letters muted; letters that set laço and las apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. laço runs 4 letters (CVCV) against las's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch

laço

3 ch

las

Role in the sentence - laço and las

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: laço is anoun and lasapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10370, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

laço is recorded at frequency rank #9,518, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈla.su/. las is at rank #852, 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 10370, this pair ranks #62,756 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of laço vs las

Shared letters: al. Private to "laço": oç. Private to "las": s.

"laço" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "las" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "laço" and "las" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "laço" or "las" show up more?

"las" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #852 in our Portuguese list, against #9,518 for "laço". 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 "laço" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "las" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #62,756 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"laço" and "las" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "laço vs loch". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #62,756 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.