lisevslisoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: lise is a noun, liso is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#39,238
“lise” frequency rank
#11,493
“liso” frequency rank
50731
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lise liso
Definition redução gradativa do estado febril e de seus sintomas que é sem asperezas, pregas, rugas

Letter map: lise vs liso

Shared letters muted; letters that set lise and liso apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. lise and liso follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
lise
4 ch
liso

Grammar separator: lise vs liso

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lise is anoun and lisoanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “lise” becomes o in “liso”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50731, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lise is recorded at frequency rank #39,238, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈli.zi/. liso is at rank #11,493, tagged as anadj.

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 50731, this pair ranks #14,231 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of lise vs liso

Shared letters: ils. Private to "lise": e. Private to "liso": o.

"lise" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "liso" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • lise ← ilse · lies · lisse · llise · lsie
  • liso ← ilso · lios · lisso · lliso · lsio

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "lise" and "liso" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lise" is a noun and "liso" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "lise" or "liso" show up more?
"liso" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,493 in our Portuguese list, against #39,238 for "lise". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "lise" and "liso". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "lise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "liso" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,231 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lise" and "liso" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Lied vs lise". 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 #14,231 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