longevsloteTell them apart

Quick tell: longe is a adjective, lote is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#689
“longe” frequency rank
#9,216
“lote” frequency rank
9905
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature longe lote
Definition distante objeto ou reunião de objetos que se leiloam de cada vez

Letter map: longe vs lote

Shared letters muted; letters that set longe and lote apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
longe
4 ch
lote

Part-of-speech tell for longe / lote

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: longe is anadjective and loteanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9905, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

longe is recorded at frequency rank #689, classified as anadj. lote is at rank #9,216, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈlɔ.tɨ/.

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 9905, this pair ranks #63,370 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of longe vs lote

Shared letters: elo. Private to "longe": gn. Private to "lote": t.

"longe" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "lote" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • longellonge · lnoge · logne · loneg · longge · lonnge · olnge
  • lotellote · loet · lotte · ltoe · olte

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "longe" and "lote" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "longe" is an adjective and "lote" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "longe" or "lote" show up more?
"longe" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #689 in our Portuguese list, against #9,216 for "lote". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "longe" vs "lote" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "longe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lote" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #63,370 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "longe" and "lote" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "loch vs lote". 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 #63,370 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