liso vs lista, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#11,493
“liso” frequency rank: #493
“lista” frequency rank: 11986
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	liso	lista
Definition	que é sem asperezas, pregas, rugas	relação de nomes, lugares ou coisas

Letter map: liso vs lista

Shared letters muted; letters that set liso and lista apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

liso

5 ch

lista

Grammar separator: liso vs lista

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: liso is anadjective and listaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11986, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

liso is recorded at frequency rank #11,493, classified as anadj. lista is at rank #493, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈliʃ.tɐ/.

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 11986, this pair ranks #60,725 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of liso vs lista

Shared letters: ils. Private to "liso": o. Private to "lista": at.

"liso" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "lista" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

liso ← ilso · lios · lisso · lliso · lsio
lista ← ilsta · lisat · lissta · listta · litsa · llista · lsita

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "liso" and "lista" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "liso" or "lista" show up more?

"lista" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #493 in our Portuguese list, against #11,493 for "liso". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "liso" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "lista" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #60,725 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"liso" and "lista" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "liso 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 #60,725 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.