# veto

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈviːtəʊ/ · frequency rank #12,165

## Definitions
1. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
2. An invocation of that right.
3. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
4. A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.

## Etymology
From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).

## Easily confused with
- **vo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vo)
- **vex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vex)
- **Vit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vit)
- **vote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vote)
- **vita** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vita)
- **vets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vets)
- **Viet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-viet)
- **vino** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vino)
- **Vigo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vigo)
- **vetoed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veto-vs-vetoed)
- **vet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vet-vs-veto)
- **vat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vat-vs-veto)
- **veg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/veg-vs-veto)
- **vee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vee-vs-veto)
- **vel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vel-vs-veto)
- **very** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/very-vs-veto)
- **vent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vent-vs-veto)
- **vein** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vein-vs-veto)
- **vest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vest-vs-veto)
- **verb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/verb-vs-veto)

## Common misspellings (5)
`evto`, `veot`, `vetto`, `vteo`, `vveto`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/veto