sei vs senti, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#118
“sei” frequency rank: #2,071
“senti” frequency rank: 2189
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sei	senti
Definition	expressa que aquilo ouvido que foi dito ou afirmado por alguém não é tomado como sendo a verdade	sentir

Letter map: sei vs senti

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

3 ch

sei

5 ch

senti

Part-of-speech tell for sei / senti

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sei is anintj and sentiaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2189, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sei is recorded at frequency rank #118, classified as anintj. 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 2189, this pair ranks #73,282 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of sei vs senti

Shared letters: eis. Private to "sei": -. Private to "senti": nt.

"sei" · 3 letters · shape CVV · "senti" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

senti ← esnti · senit · sennti · sentti · setni · sneti · ssenti

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sei" for "senti" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sei" is an intj and "senti" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "sei" or "senti"?

"sei" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #118 in our Portuguese list, against #2,071 for "senti". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "sei" and "senti". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "sei" 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 #73,282 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sei" and "senti" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "senda vs senti". 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 #73,282 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.