salevssaqueTell them apart

Which to use

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

#28,024
“sale” frequency rank
#12,144
“saque” frequency rank
40168
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sale saque
Definition ver liquidação ato ou efeito de sacar

Letter map: sale vs saque

Shared letters muted; letters that set sale and saque apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
sale
5 ch
saque

Spelling & dictionary notes on sale vs saque

sale and saque 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 40168, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sale is recorded at frequency rank #28,024, classified as anoun. saque is at rank #12,144, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈsa.kɨ/.

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 40168, this pair ranks #25,994 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sale vs saque

Shared letters: aes. Private to "sale": l. Private to "saque": qu.

"sale" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "saque" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • saleasle · sael · salle · slae · ssale
  • saqueasque · saqeu · saqque · sauqe · sqaue · ssaque

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sale" and "saque" be used interchangeably?
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.
Frequency check: "sale" vs "saque" - which ranks higher?
"saque" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,144 in our Portuguese list, against #28,024 for "sale". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "sale" and "saque". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "saque" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #25,994 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sale" and "saque" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sale 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 #25,994 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