sitevsslideTell them apart

Which to use

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

#301
“site” frequency rank
#17,389
“slide” frequency rank
17690
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature site slide
Definition ver saite, sítio ver eslaide

Where the eye mixes site and slide

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

4 ch
site
5 ch
slide

Visual trap between site and slide

A purely visual mix-up. site (/ˈsaj.ʧi/) and slide (/ˈslaj.dɨ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17690, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

site is recorded at frequency rank #301, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈsaj.ʧi/. slide is at rank #17,389, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈslaj.dɨ/.

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 17690, this pair ranks #53,493 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of site vs slide

Shared letters: eis. Private to "site": t. Private to "slide": dl.

"site" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "slide" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • siteiste · siet · sitte · ssite · stie
  • slidelside · silde · sldie · slidde · slied · sllide · sslide

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "site" for "slide" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/ˈsaj.ʧi/ versus /ˈslaj.dɨ/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "site" or "slide" show up more?
"site" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #301 in our Portuguese list, against #17,389 for "slide". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "site" and "slide" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "site" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "slide" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #53,493 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "site" and "slide" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "slide vs slider". 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 #53,493 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