sorte vs source, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#949
“sorte” frequency rank: #12,343
“source” frequency rank: 13292
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sorte	source
Definition	acaso ou coincidência feliz; contingência favorável	fonte, origem

Letter map: sorte vs source

Shared letters muted; letters that set sorte and source apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch

sorte

6 ch

source

Corpus notes: sorte and source

sorte and source 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13292, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sorte is recorded at frequency rank #949, classified as anoun. source is at rank #12,343, tagged as anoun, pronounced /sɔɹs/.

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 13292, this pair ranks #59,109 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of sorte vs source

Shared letters: eors. Private to "sorte": t. Private to "source": cu.

"sorte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "source" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

sorte ← osrte · soret · sorrte · sortte · sotre · srote · ssorte
source ← osurce · soruce · soucre · sourcce · sourec · sourrce · ssource · suorce

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sorte" and "source" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Frequency check: "sorte" vs "source" - which ranks higher?

"sorte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #949 in our Portuguese list, against #12,343 for "source". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sorte" and "source".

Full dictionary entry for "sorte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "source" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #59,109 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sorte" and "source" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sire vs sorte". 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 #59,109 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.