vão

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for vão is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɐ̃w̃/ [ˈvɐ̃ʊ̯̃]. Corpus data places it at rank #253 in overall Portuguese 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 misspelling variants are generated for vão in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vi", "ver", "vez", 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 vão, spelled V-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.