vi
/'vi/
The verdict
“vi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #339) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #339
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tu, você, pronome da segunda pessoa do singular
Corpus desk
Index PT-vi · vi · Portuguese
vi · rank #339 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #339
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH causa
Nearest frequency peer: causa (+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 “vi”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- exemplo
exemplo
99,667 corpus weight
- falta
falta
99,666 corpus weight
- favor
favor
99,665 corpus weight
- série
série
99,664 corpus weight
- vi
vi
99,662 corpus weight
- causa
causa
99,661 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “vi” 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 | vi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /'vi/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “vi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vi is neighbouring look-alikes ("viu", "via", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /'vi/. Frequency #339 among 501 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for vi in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "viu", "via", "voz", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is vi, spelled V-I.
Definition
- 1tu, você, pronome da segunda pessoa do singular
- 2vós, vocês, pronome da segunda pessoa do plural
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.