vamos
The verdict
“vamos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #207
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do plural do indicativo presente do verbo ir
Corpus desk
Index PT-vamos · vamos · Portuguese
vamos · rank #207 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #207
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH momento
Nearest frequency peer: momento (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “vamos”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fez
fez
99,798 corpus weight
- ninguém
ninguém
99,797 corpus weight
- momento
momento
99,795 corpus weight
- vamos
vamos
99,794 corpus weight
- verdade
verdade
99,793 corpus weight
- foto
foto
99,790 corpus weight
What this shows “vamos” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | vamos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “vamos”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vamos, averb. Corpus frequency is #207 among 501 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vamos, with forms such as "avmos", "vammos", and "vamoss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "vão", "vós", "vas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is vamos, spelled V-A-M-O-S.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vamos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vamos almoçar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avmos
- vammos
- vamoss
- vamso
- vaoms
- vmaos
- vvamos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vamos - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).