sitovssucoTell them apart

Quick tell: sito is a adjective, suco is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#30,723
“sito” frequency rank
#4,860
“suco” frequency rank
35583
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sito suco
Definition situado líquido retirado da parte carnuda de uma fruta, de algum animal ou de algum vegetal

Letter map: sito vs suco

Shared letters muted; letters that set sito and suco apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. sito and suco follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
sito
4 ch
suco

Part-of-speech tell for sito / suco

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sito is anadjective and sucoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35583, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sito is recorded at frequency rank #30,723, classified as anadj. suco is at rank #4,860, 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 35583, this pair ranks #31,445 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sito vs suco

Shared letters: os. Private to "sito": it. Private to "suco": cu.

"sito" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "suco" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sito ← siot · sitto · ssito · stio
  • suco ← scuo · ssuco · succo · suoc · usco

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sito" and "suco" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sito" is an adjective and "suco" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "sito" or "suco"?
"suco" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,860 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.

After this comparison

Pair "sito" vs "suco" 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 "suco" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,445 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sito" and "suco" 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 #31,445 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