letovsletraConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#33,915
“leto” frequency rank
#2,238
“letra” frequency rank
36153
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature leto letra
Definition verão: representação gráfica dos sons de um idioma

Letter map: leto vs letra

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

4 ch
leto
5 ch
letra

Corpus notes: leto and letra

leto and letra 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 36153, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

leto is recorded at frequency rank #33,915, classified as anoun. letra is at rank #2,238, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈle.tɾɐ/.

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 36153, this pair ranks #30,725 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of leto vs letra

Shared letters: elt. Private to "leto": o. Private to "letra": ar.

"leto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "letra" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • leto ← elto · leot · letto · lleto · lteo
  • letra ← eltra · lerta · letar · letrra · lettra · lletra · ltera

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "leto" and "letra" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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: "leto" vs "letra" - which ranks higher?
"letra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,238 in our Portuguese list, against #33,915 for "leto". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "leto" vs "letra" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "leto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "letra" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,725 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "leto" and "letra" 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 #30,725 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