vos

/[ˈbos]/ pron

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.

Key facts for vos
PropertyValue
Headwordvos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPron
IPA[ˈbos]
Letters3
Frequency rank#493
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vos in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Pronombre personal formal y hoy arcaico de la segunda persona del singular y del plural; el paradigma verbal está plenamente asimilado al de vosotros.
  2. 2
    Pronombre personal familiar de la segunda persona del singular en caso nominativo y preposicional.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #493 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vos"?
"vos" is spelled V-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbos].
What does "vos" mean?
As a pron, "vos" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "vos"?
"vos" is commonly confused with "voy", "voz", "vox". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vos" is [ˈbos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vos" come from?
"vos" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.