sóciovssoirTell them apart

Which to use

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

#3,806
“sócio” frequency rank
#47,619
“soir” frequency rank
51425
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sócio soir
Definition pessoa que divide as despesas e os lucros com as outras em uma companhia ou em um clube noite (período entre o anoitecer e a meia-noite)

Letter map: sócio vs soir

Shared letters muted; letters that set sócio and soir apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. sócio runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against soir's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
sócio
4 ch
soir

Pair insight - sócio / soir

sócio and soir 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 51425, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sócio is recorded at frequency rank #3,806, classified as anoun. soir is at rank #47,619, tagged as anoun, pronounced \swaʁ\.

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 51425, this pair ranks #13,615 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sócio vs soir

Shared letters: ios. Private to "sócio": có. Private to "soir": r.

"sócio" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "soir" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • soir ← osir · sior · soirr · sori · ssoir

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sócio" and "soir" 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.
Frequency check: "sócio" vs "soir" - which ranks higher?
"sócio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,806 in our Portuguese list, against #47,619 for "soir". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "sócio" vs "soir" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sócio" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "soir" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,615 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sócio" and "soir" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soap vs soir". 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 #13,615 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