soldovssoltoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#46,066
“soldo” frequency rank
#6,242
“solto” frequency rank
52308
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soldo solto
Definition salário básico de militar que se soltou

Letter map: soldo vs solto

Shared letters muted; letters that set soldo and solto apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. soldo and solto 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
solto

Part-of-speech tell for soldo / solto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: soldo is anoun and soltoanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “soldo” becomes t in “solto”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52308, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soldo is recorded at frequency rank #46,066, classified as anoun. solto is at rank #6,242, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈsoɫ.tu/.

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 52308, this pair ranks #12,866 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soldo vs solto

Shared letters: los. Private to "soldo": d. Private to "solto": t.

"soldo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "solto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • soldo ← osldo · slodo · sodlo · solddo · solldo · solod · ssoldo
  • solto ← oslto · sloto · sollto · solot · soltto · sotlo · ssolto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "soldo" and "solto" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "soldo" is a noun and "solto" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "soldo" vs "solto" - which ranks higher?
"solto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,242 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 "solto" 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 "solto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #12,866 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soldo" and "solto" 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 #12,866 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