salevsseteConfusable pair

Quick tell: sale is a noun, sete is a num, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sale” is a noun and “sete” is a num - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,024
“sale” frequency rank
#858
“sete” frequency rank
28882
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sale sete
Definition ver liquidação cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha sete elementos distintos; número equivalente a seis mais um, representado pelo símbolo 7 em algarismos arábicos ou VII/vii em algarismos romanos

Letter map: sale vs sete

Shared letters muted; letters that set sale and sete apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. sale and sete follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
sale
4 ch
sete

Part-of-speech tell for sale / sete

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sale is anoun and seteanum. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28882, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sale is recorded at frequency rank #28,024, classified as anoun. sete is at rank #858, tagged as anum, pronounced /ˈsɛ.tʃi/, /ˈsɛ.ti/.

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 28882, this pair ranks #39,880 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sale vs sete

Shared letters: es. Private to "sale": al. Private to "sete": t.

"sale" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "sete" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sale ← asle · sael · salle · slae · ssale
  • sete ← seet · sette · ssete · stee

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sale" for "sete" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sale" is a noun and "sete" a num, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "sale" vs "sete" - which ranks higher?
"sete" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #858 in our Portuguese list, against #28,024 for "sale". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "sale" vs "sete" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sete" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #39,880 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sale" and "sete" 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 #39,880 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