sala vs saldar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“sala” is a noun and “saldar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#636
“sala” frequency rank: #38,011
“saldar” frequency rank: 38647
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sala	saldar
Definition	compartimento principal de uma casa	pagar a totalidade

Letter map: sala vs saldar

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

4 ch

sala

6 ch

saldar

Part-of-speech tell for sala / saldar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sala is anoun and saldaraverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38647, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sala is recorded at frequency rank #636, classified as anoun, pronounced /"sa.l@/. saldar is at rank #38,011, tagged as averb.

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 38647, this pair ranks #27,749 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sala vs saldar

Shared letters: als. Private to "sala": -. Private to "saldar": dr.

"sala" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "saldar" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

sala ← asla · saal · salla · slaa · ssala
saldar ← asldar · sadlar · saladr · saldarr · salddar · saldra · salldar · sladar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sala" for "saldar" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sala" is a noun and "saldar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "sala" vs "saldar" - which ranks higher?

"sala" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #636 in our Portuguese list, against #38,011 for "saldar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "sala" and "saldar". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "sala" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "saldar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #27,749 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sala" and "saldar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saldar vs sondar". 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 #27,749 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.