vos
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#493
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vos is aSpanishpron. It means: Pronombre personal formal y hoy arcaico de la segunda persona del singular y del plural; el paradigma verbal está plenamente asimilado al de vosotros. Pronounced [ˈbos]. It ranks #493 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with voy and voz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [ˈbos] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vos is 3 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbos]. Corpus data places it at rank #493 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vos in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voy", "voz", "vox", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is vos, spelled V-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pronombre personal formal y hoy arcaico de la segunda persona del singular y del plural; el paradigma verbal está plenamente asimilado al de vosotros.
- 2Pronombre personal familiar de la segunda persona del singular en caso nominativo y preposicional.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #493 in Spanish
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