você

[voˈse]

/[voˈse]/ pron

The verdict

“você” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,601 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,601
frequency rank, Spanish
1,793
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usted.

Corpus desk

Index ES-voce · você · Spanish

você · rank #80,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,601
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,793
  • PHOTO-FINISH voluntarismo

Nearest frequency peer: voluntarismo (+1 rank slots)

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.

Rangos de cola larga cerca de “você”

Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “você” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for você
PropertyValue
Headwordvocê
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPronoun
IPA[voˈse]
Letters4
Frequency rank#80,601
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cola larga: rango de “você” en español

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).vocêcae en esta cola de rareza:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. Vecinos raros de la misma franja: “voluntarismo” (#80,602), “Virginie” (#80,599), “Waldemar” (#80,603). Entre 1,793 lemas con “V”, “você” va en #80,601. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

você is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,601 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [voˈse]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for você, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is você, spelled V-O-C-Ê.

Definition

  1. 1
    Usted.
  2. 2
    Tú, vos.
  3. 3
    Alguien, persona no especificada (equivalente a "uno" o el "tú" impersonal en español).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how você appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. se você não paga a conta, eles cortam o fornecimento.

Synonyms

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "você"?
"você" is spelled V-O-C-Ê. The IPA pronunciation is [voˈse].
What does "você" mean?
As a pronoun, "você" means: Usted.
How do you pronounce "você"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "você" is [voˈse]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "você" come from?
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "você", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list