seatvssentiWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: seat is a noun, senti is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#34,459
“seat” frequency rank
#2,071
“senti” frequency rank
36530
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature seat senti
Definition cadeira (lugar ocupado por membro de uma corporação) sentir

Letter map: seat vs senti

Shared letters muted; letters that set seat and senti apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
seat
5 ch
senti

Part-of-speech tell for seat / senti

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: seat is anoun and sentiaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

seat is recorded at frequency rank #34,459, classified as anoun, pronounced /siːt/. senti is at rank #2,071, 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 36530, this pair ranks #30,261 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of seat vs senti

Shared letters: est. Private to "seat": a. Private to "senti": in.

"seat" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "senti" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • seatesat · saet · seatt · sseat
  • sentiesnti · senit · sennti · sentti · setni · sneti · ssenti

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "seat" for "senti" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "seat" is a noun and "senti" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "seat" or "senti" show up more?
"senti" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,071 in our Portuguese list, against #34,459 for "seat". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "seat" vs "senti" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "seat" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "senti" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,261 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "seat" and "senti" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "seat vs soap". 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 #30,261 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