Which to use
“sabiá” is a noun and “sábio” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #38,475
- “sabiá” frequency rank
- #8,398
- “sábio” frequency rank
- 46873
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sabiá | sábio |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | pássaro canoro do Brasil | que tem o poder de discernimento e julgamento em relação ao que é justo e verdadeiro |
Letter map: sabiá vs sábio
Shared letters muted; letters that set sabiá and sábio apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. sabiá and sábio follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for sabiá / sábio
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sabiá is anoun and sábioanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46873, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sabiá is recorded at frequency rank #38,475, classified as anoun. sábio is at rank #8,398, 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 46873, this pair ranks #18,427 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of sabiá vs sábio
Shared letters: bisá. Private to "sabiá": a. Private to "sábio": o.
"sabiá" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "sábio" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "sabiá" for "sábio" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sabiá" and "sábio".
- Full dictionary entry for "sabiá" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sábio" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #18,427 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sabiá" and "sábio" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sabiá vs sanita". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #18,427 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.