vemosvsvisosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: vemos is a verb, visos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“vemos” is a verb and “visos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,275
“vemos” frequency rank
#48,755
“visos” frequency rank
50030
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vemos visos
Definition Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de indicativo de ver o de verse. Forma del plural de viso.

Where the eye mixes vemos and visos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
vemos
5 ch
visos

Visual trap between vemos and visos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: vemos is [ˈbemos] while visos is [ˈbisos]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50030, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vemos is recorded at frequency rank #1,275, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈbemos]. visos is at rank #48,755, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈbisos].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 50030, this pair ranks #105,506 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vemos vs visos

Shared letters: osv. Private to "vemos": em. Private to "visos": i.

"vemos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "visos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vemosbemos · evmos · vemmos · vemoss · vemso · veoms · vmeos · vvemos
  • visosbisos · ivsos · vioss · visoss · vissos · vsios · vvisos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vemos" for "visos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vemos" is a verb and "visos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "vemos" or "visos"?
"vemos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,275 in our Spanish list, against #48,755 for "visos". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "vemos" and "visos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vemos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #105,506 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vemos" and "visos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visos vs vistoso". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #105,506 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list