sintoma vs sintomas, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#15,459
“sintoma” frequency rank: #4,183
“sintomas” frequency rank: 19642
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sintoma	sintomas
Definition	sinal	plural de sintoma

Letter map: sintoma vs sintomas

Shared letters muted; letters that set sintoma and sintomas apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. sintoma runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against sintomas's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch

sintoma

8 ch

sintomas

Pair insight - sintoma / sintomas

sintoma and sintomas 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 extra letter(s) - “sintoma” sits inside “sintomas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19642, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sintoma is recorded at frequency rank #15,459, classified as anoun, pronounced /sĩ.ˈto.mɐ/. sintomas is at rank #4,183, tagged as anoun.

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 19642, this pair ranks #51,055 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sintoma vs sintomas

Shared letters: aimnost. Private to "sintoma": -. Private to "sintomas": -.

"sintoma" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "sintomas" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

sintoma ← isntoma · sinntoma · sinotma · sintmoa · sintoam · sintomma · sinttoma · sitnoma
sintomas ← isntomas · sinntomas · sinotmas · sintmoas · sintoams · sintomass · sintommas · sintomsa

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sintoma" for "sintomas" ever safe?

No. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “sintoma” sits inside “sintomas”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Frequency check: "sintoma" vs "sintomas" - which ranks higher?

"sintomas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,183 in our Portuguese list, against #15,459 for "sintoma". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sintoma" and "sintomas".

Full dictionary entry for "sintoma" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "sintomas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #51,055 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sintoma" and "sintomas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sintoma vs sintonia". 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 #51,055 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.