Which to use
“recolher” and “resolver” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,105
- “recolher” frequency rank
- #1,476
- “resolver” frequency rank
- 7581
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recolher | resolver |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | guardar | dissolver pouco a pouco; separar nas partes constituintes |
Where the eye mixes recolher and resolver
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. recolher and resolver follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between recolher and resolver
A purely visual mix-up. recolher (/Rɨ.ku.ˈʎeɾ/) and resolver (/Rɨ.zoɫ.ˈveɾ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7581, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recolher is recorded at frequency rank #6,105, classified as averb, pronounced /Rɨ.ku.ˈʎeɾ/. resolver is at rank #1,476, tagged as averb, pronounced /Rɨ.zoɫ.ˈveɾ/.
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 7581, this pair ranks #66,540 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of recolher vs resolver
Shared letters: elor. Private to "recolher": ch. Private to "resolver": sv.
"recolher" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC · "resolver" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "recolher" and "resolver" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "recolher" or "resolver" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "recolher" and "resolver" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "recolher" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "resolver" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #66,540 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recolher" and "resolver" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recolher vs revolver". 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 #66,540 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.