signovssitoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: signo is a noun, sito is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“signo” is a noun and “sito” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#10,792
“signo” frequency rank
#30,723
“sito” frequency rank
41515
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature signo sito
Definition sinal, marca situado

Letter map: signo vs sito

Shared letters muted; letters that set signo and sito apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. signo runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against sito's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
signo
4 ch
sito

Part-of-speech tell for signo / sito

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: signo is anoun and sitoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41515, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

signo is recorded at frequency rank #10,792, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈsi.ɡnu/. sito is at rank #30,723, tagged as anadj.

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 41515, this pair ranks #24,398 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of signo vs sito

Shared letters: ios. Private to "signo": gn. Private to "sito": t.

"signo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "sito" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • signo ← isgno · sgino · siggno · signno · sigon · singo · ssigno
  • sito ← siot · sitto · ssito · stio

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "signo" for "sito" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "signo" is a noun and "sito" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "signo" vs "sito" - which ranks higher?
"signo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,792 in our Portuguese list, against #30,723 for "sito". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "signo" vs "sito" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "signo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sito" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #24,398 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "signo" and "sito" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sire vs sito". 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 #24,398 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