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

#30,723
“sito” frequency rank
#6,242
“solto” frequency rank
36965
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sito solto
Definition situado que se soltou

Letter map: sito vs solto

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

4 ch
sito
5 ch
solto

Spelling & dictionary notes on sito vs solto

sito and solto 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36965, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sito is recorded at frequency rank #30,723, classified as anadj. solto is at rank #6,242, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈsoɫ.tu/.

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 36965, this pair ranks #29,754 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sito vs solto

Shared letters: ost. Private to "sito": i. Private to "solto": l.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sito ← siot · sitto · ssito · stio
  • solto ← oslto · sloto · sollto · solot · soltto · sotlo · ssolto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sito" and "solto" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "sito" or "solto" show up more?
"solto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,242 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "sito" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "solto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,754 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sito" and "solto" 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 #29,754 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