soldovssólidoTell them apart

Quick tell: soldo is a noun, sólido is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#46,066
“soldo” frequency rank
#9,414
“sólido” frequency rank
55480
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soldo sólido
Definition salário básico de militar que resiste a esforço mecânico

Letter map: soldo vs sólido

Shared letters muted; letters that set soldo and sólido apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. soldo runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against sólido's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
soldo
6 ch
sólido

Grammar separator: soldo vs sólido

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: soldo is anoun and sólidoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55480, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soldo is recorded at frequency rank #46,066, classified as anoun. sólido is at rank #9,414, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈsɔ.li.du/.

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 55480, this pair ranks #10,570 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soldo vs sólido

Shared letters: dlos. Private to "soldo": -. Private to "sólido": ió.

"soldo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "sólido" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soldo" and "sólido" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "soldo" is a noun and "sólido" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "soldo" or "sólido" show up more?
"sólido" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,414 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.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "soldo" and "sólido".

  • Full dictionary entry for "soldo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sólido" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #10,570 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soldo" and "sólido" 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 #10,570 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