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“sabiá” and “salina” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#38,475
“sabiá” frequency rank
#34,030
“salina” frequency rank
72505
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sabiá salina
Definition pássaro canoro do Brasil área de produção de sal marinho pela evaporação da água do mar ou de lago de água salgada

Letter map: sabiá vs salina

Shared letters muted; letters that set sabiá and salina apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. sabiá runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against salina's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
sabiá
6 ch
salina

Corpus notes: sabiá and salina

sabiá and salina are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72505, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sabiá is recorded at frequency rank #38,475, classified as anoun. salina is at rank #34,030, tagged as anoun, pronounced /sɐ.ˈli.nɐ/.

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 72505, this pair ranks #3,028 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sabiá vs salina

Shared letters: ais. Private to "sabiá": bá. Private to "salina": ln.

"sabiá" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "salina" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • salina ← aslina · sailna · salian · salinna · sallina · salnia · slaina · ssalina

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sabiá" and "salina" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "sabiá" or "salina"?
"salina" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,030 in our Portuguese list, against #38,475 for "sabiá". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "sabiá" vs "salina" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sabiá" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "salina" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #3,028 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sabiá" and "salina" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sabiá vs sanita". 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 #3,028 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