vo
"vo" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,971) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,971
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of voe (“sea inlet”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-vo · vo · English
vo · rank #25,971 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,971
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH watchful
Nearest frequency peer: watchful (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “vo”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Valentina
Valentina
74,034 corpus weight
- vaping
vaping
74,032 corpus weight
- vo
vo
74,030 corpus weight
- watchful
watchful
74,029 corpus weight
- Waterford
Waterford
74,028 corpus weight
- wayward
wayward
74,027 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “vo” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #25,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “vo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vo is neighbouring look-alikes ("VR", "VP", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #25,971 among 969 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Obsolete form of voe (“sea inlet”).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VR", "VP", "VW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is vo, spelled V-O.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of voe (“sea inlet”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2 marks land in Garth on the south side of the Vo
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.