vá
/ˈva/
The verdict
“vá” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,517) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,517
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - para indicar moderação, para prevenir de não provocar dano
Corpus desk
Index PT-va · vá · Portuguese
vá · rank #1,517 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,517
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH viva
Nearest frequency peer: viva (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “vá”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- torno
torno
98,488 corpus weight
- viva
viva
98,485 corpus weight
- vá
vá
98,484 corpus weight
- afinal
afinal
98,483 corpus weight
- aproximadam…
aproximadamente
98,481 corpus weight
- beber
beber
98,480 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “vá” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | vá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈva/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “vá”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vá is neighbouring look-alikes ("vi", "vai", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ˈva/. Frequency #1,517 among 501 “V” headwords. Gloss: "para indicar moderação, para prevenir de não provocar dano".
Zero misspellings are on record for vá in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vi", "vai", "ver", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is vá, spelled V-Á.
Definition
- 1para indicar moderação, para prevenir de não provocar dano
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.