olhai vs olhos, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“olhai” is a verb and “olhos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,563
“olhai” frequency rank: #538
“olhos” frequency rank: 44101
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	olhai	olhos
Definition	segunda pessoa do plural do imperativo do verbo olhar	plural de olho:

Letter map: olhai vs olhos

Shared letters muted; letters that set olhai and olhos apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

olhai

5 ch

olhos

Role in the sentence - olhai and olhos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: olhai is averb and olhosanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44101, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

olhai is recorded at frequency rank #43,563, classified as averb. olhos is at rank #538, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈo.ʎʊs/.

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 44101, this pair ranks #21,439 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of olhai vs olhos

Shared letters: hlo. Private to "olhai": ai. Private to "olhos": s.

"olhai" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV · "olhos" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

olhai ← lohai · ohlai · olahi · olhhai · olhia · ollhai
olhos ← lohos · ohlos · olhhos · olhoss · olhso · ollhos · olohs

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "olhai" and "olhos" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "olhai" is a verb and "olhos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "olhai" or "olhos" show up more?

"olhos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #538 in our Portuguese list, against #43,563 for "olhai". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "olhai" and "olhos".

Full dictionary entry for "olhai" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "olhos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #21,439 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"olhai" and "olhos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "olhado vs olhai". 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 #21,439 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.