sitovsstopWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#30,723
“sito” frequency rank
#7,087
“stop” frequency rank
37810
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sito stop
Definition situado pare, para

Letter map: sito vs stop

Shared letters muted; letters that set sito and stop apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
sito
4 ch
stop

Role in the sentence - sito and stop

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sito is anadjective and stopanintj. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37810, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sito is recorded at frequency rank #30,723, classified as anadj. stop is at rank #7,087, tagged as anintj.

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 37810, this pair ranks #28,759 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sito vs stop

Shared letters: ost. Private to "sito": i. Private to "stop": p.

"sito" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "stop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sitosiot · sitto · ssito · stio
  • stopsotp · sstop · stopp · stpo · sttop · tsop

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sito" and "stop" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sito" is an adjective and "stop" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "sito" or "stop" show up more?
"stop" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,087 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

You've compared "sito" and "stop". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sito" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "stop" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,759 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sito" and "stop" 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 #28,759 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