sadevssaídoTell them apart

Quick tell: sade is a noun, saído is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sade” is a noun and “saído” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,105
“sade” frequency rank
#6,237
“saído” frequency rank
54342
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sade saído
Definition chuva que se comporta desinibidamente e/ou atrevidamente

Letter map: sade vs saído

Shared letters muted; letters that set sade and saído apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. sade runs 4 letters (CVCV) against saído's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
sade
5 ch
saído

Grammar separator: sade vs saído

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sade is anoun and saídoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54342, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sade is recorded at frequency rank #48,105, classified as anoun. saído is at rank #6,237, tagged as anadj, pronounced /sɐ.ˈi.du/.

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 54342, this pair ranks #11,336 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sade vs saído

Shared letters: ads. Private to "sade": e. Private to "saído": oí.

"sade" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "saído" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sade ← asde · sadde · saed · sdae · ssade

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sade" and "saído" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sade" is a noun and "saído" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "sade" or "saído"?
"saído" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,237 in our Portuguese list, against #48,105 for "sade". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "sade" and "saído". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sade" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "saído" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #11,336 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sade" and "saído" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sade 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 #11,336 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