soldovssuadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#46,066
“soldo” frequency rank
#23,137
“suado” frequency rank
69203
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soldo suado
Definition salário básico de militar que está suando

Letter map: soldo vs suado

Shared letters muted; letters that set soldo and suado apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. soldo (CVCCV) and suado (CVVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
soldo
5 ch
suado

Part-of-speech tell for soldo / suado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: soldo is anoun and suadoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69203, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soldo is recorded at frequency rank #46,066, classified as anoun. suado is at rank #23,137, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈswa.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 69203, this pair ranks #4,017 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soldo vs suado

Shared letters: dos. Private to "soldo": l. Private to "suado": au.

"soldo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "suado" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • soldo ← osldo · slodo · sodlo · solddo · solldo · solod · ssoldo
  • suado ← saudo · ssuado · suaddo · suaod · sudao

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soldo" and "suado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "soldo" is a noun and "suado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "soldo" or "suado" show up more?
"suado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,137 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.

After this comparison

Pair "soldo" vs "suado" 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 "suado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,017 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soldo" and "suado" 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 #4,017 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