Which to use
“sábio” is an adjective and “sais” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #8,398
- “sábio” frequency rank
- #11,150
- “sais” frequency rank
- 19548
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sábio | sais |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | que tem o poder de discernimento e julgamento em relação ao que é justo e verdadeiro | substâncias voláteis dadas a uma pessoa desmaiada para fazer com que ela acorde |
Letter map: sábio vs sais
Shared letters muted; letters that set sábio and sais apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. sábio runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against sais's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for sábio / sais
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sábio is anadjective and saisanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19548, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sábio is recorded at frequency rank #8,398, classified as anadj. sais is at rank #11,150, tagged as anoun.
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 19548, this pair ranks #51,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sábio vs sais
Shared letters: is. Private to "sábio": boá. Private to "sais": a.
"sábio" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "sais" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sais ← saiss · sasi · sias · ssais
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "sábio" for "sais" ever safe?
Which is more common, "sábio" or "sais"?
What to do next
Pair "sábio" vs "sais" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "sábio" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sais" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #51,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sábio" and "sais" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sais vs Sau". 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 #51,137 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.