letivo vs leto, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#15,379
“letivo” frequency rank: #33,915
“leto” frequency rank: 49294
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	letivo	leto
Definition	escolar.	verão:

Letter map: letivo vs leto

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

6 ch

letivo

4 ch

leto

Part-of-speech tell for letivo / leto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: letivo is anadjective and letoanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49294, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

letivo is recorded at frequency rank #15,379, classified as anadj, pronounced /lɛ.ˈti.vu/. leto is at rank #33,915, 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 49294, this pair ranks #15,744 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of letivo vs leto

Shared letters: elot. Private to "letivo": iv. Private to "leto": -.

"letivo" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "leto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

letivo ← eltivo · leitvo · letiov · letivvo · lettivo · letvio · lletivo · lteivo
leto ← elto · leot · letto · lleto · lteo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "letivo" for "leto" ever safe?

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

Which is more common, "letivo" or "leto"?

"letivo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,379 in our Portuguese list, against #33,915 for "leto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "letivo" and "leto".

Full dictionary entry for "letivo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "leto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #15,744 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"letivo" and "leto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "leto vs ludo". 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 #15,744 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.