vamos
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#207
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
vamos is aPortugueseverb. It means: primeira pessoa do plural do indicativo presente do verbo ir It ranks #207 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with vão and vós.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vamos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for vamos is 5 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #207 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for vamos, with forms such as "avmos", "vammos", and "vamoss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "vão", "vós", "vas", 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 Portuguese form is vamos, spelled V-A-M-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do plural do indicativo presente do verbo ir
- 2primeira pessoa do plural do subjuntivo presente do verbo ir
- 3quando seguido de um verbo no infinitivo, concede sentido volitivo a este último
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avmos,vammos,vamoss,vamso,vaoms,vmaos,vvamos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vamos
Misspelling Variants of "vamos"
Frequency rank: #207 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Portuguese index: