sabidovssábioConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#11,960
“sabido” frequency rank
#8,398
“sábio” frequency rank
20358
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sabido sábio
Definition que se sabe que tem o poder de discernimento e julgamento em relação ao que é justo e verdadeiro

Letter map: sabido vs sábio

Shared letters muted; letters that set sabido and sábio apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. sabido runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against sábio's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
sabido
5 ch
sábio

Spelling & dictionary notes on sabido vs sábio

sabido and sábio 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 20358, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sabido is recorded at frequency rank #11,960, classified as anadj, pronounced /sɐ.ˈbi.du/. 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 20358, this pair ranks #50,182 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sabido vs sábio

Shared letters: bios. Private to "sabido": ad. Private to "sábio": á.

"sabido" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "sábio" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sabido ← asbido · sabbido · sabdio · sabiddo · sabiod · saibdo · sbaido · ssabido

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sabido" and "sábio" 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.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "sabido" or "sábio" show up more?
"sábio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,398 in our Portuguese list, against #11,960 for "sabido". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sabido" and "sábio".

  • Full dictionary entry for "sabido" 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 #50,182 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sabido" and "sábio" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sabido vs sarado". 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 #50,182 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