saídavssalinaTell them apart

Which to use

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

#1,201
“saída” frequency rank
#34,030
“salina” frequency rank
35231
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature saída salina
Definition ação de sair área de produção de sal marinho pela evaporação da água do mar ou de lago de água salgada

Where the eye mixes saída and salina

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. saída runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against salina's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
saída
6 ch
salina

Visual trap between saída and salina

A purely visual mix-up. saída (/sɐ.ˈi.dɐ/) and salina (/sɐ.ˈli.nɐ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35231, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

saída is recorded at frequency rank #1,201, classified as anoun, pronounced /sɐ.ˈi.dɐ/. 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 35231, this pair ranks #31,845 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of saída vs salina

Shared letters: as. Private to "saída": dí. Private to "salina": iln.

"saída" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "salina" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "saída" for "salina" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/sɐ.ˈi.dɐ/ versus /sɐ.ˈli.nɐ/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "saída" vs "salina" - which ranks higher?
"saída" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,201 in our Portuguese list, against #34,030 for "salina". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "saída" and "salina" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "saída" 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 #31,845 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "saída" and "salina" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "salina 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 #31,845 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