soldovssoltaConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#46,066
“soldo” frequency rank
#4,270
“solta” frequency rank
50336
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soldo solta
Definition salário básico de militar ato ou efeito de soltar

Letter map: soldo vs solta

Shared letters muted; letters that set soldo and solta apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. soldo and solta follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
soldo
5 ch
solta

Corpus notes: soldo and solta

soldo and solta 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50336, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soldo is recorded at frequency rank #46,066, classified as anoun. solta is at rank #4,270, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈsoɫ.tɐ/.

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 50336, this pair ranks #14,633 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soldo vs solta

Shared letters: los. Private to "soldo": d. Private to "solta": at.

"soldo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "solta" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • soldo ← osldo · slodo · sodlo · solddo · solldo · solod · ssoldo
  • solta ← oslta · slota · solat · sollta · soltta · sotla · ssolta

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "soldo" for "solta" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "soldo" vs "solta" - which ranks higher?
"solta" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,270 in our Portuguese list, against #46,066 for "soldo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "soldo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "solta" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,633 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soldo" and "solta" 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 #14,633 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