soldovssolidãoWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#46,066
“soldo” frequency rank
#6,710
“solidão” frequency rank
52776
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soldo solidão
Definition salário básico de militar estado daquilo que está só, isolado

Letter map: soldo vs solidão

Shared letters muted; letters that set soldo and solidão apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. soldo runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against solidão's 7 (CVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
soldo
7 ch
solidão

Pair insight - soldo / solidão

soldo and solidão 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 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52776, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soldo is recorded at frequency rank #46,066, classified as anoun. solidão is at rank #6,710, 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 52776, this pair ranks #12,511 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soldo vs solidão

Shared letters: dlos. Private to "soldo": -. Private to "solidão": iã.

"soldo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "solidão" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • soldo ← osldo · slodo · sodlo · solddo · solldo · solod · ssoldo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soldo" and "solidão" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 2 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 "soldo" or "solidão" show up more?
"solidão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,710 in our Portuguese list, against #46,066 for "soldo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "soldo" vs "solidão" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "soldo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "solidão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #12,511 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soldo" and "solidão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soldo vs sulco". 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 #12,511 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