sitevssmeConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#301
“site” frequency rank
#40,334
“sme” frequency rank
40635
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature site sme
Definition ver saite, sítio primeira pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo byť

Letter map: site vs sme

Shared letters muted; letters that set site and sme apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
site
3 ch
sme

Part-of-speech tell for site / sme

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: site is anoun and smeaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40635, 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/. sme is at rank #40,334, 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 40635, this pair ranks #25,429 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of site vs sme

Shared letters: es. Private to "site": it. Private to "sme": m.

"site" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "sme" · 3 letters · shape CCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • siteiste · siet · sitte · ssite · stie

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "site" for "sme" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "site" is a noun and "sme" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "site" or "sme"?
"site" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #301 in our Portuguese list, against #40,334 for "sme". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "site" vs "sme" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "site" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sme" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #25,429 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "site" and "sme" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Sau vs sme". 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 #25,429 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