você
The verdict
“você” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - aquele a quem se fala ou escreve
Corpus desk
Index PT-voce · você · Portuguese
você · rank #29 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #29
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH me
Nearest frequency peer: me (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “você”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- foi
foi
99,975 corpus weight
- ao
ao
99,974 corpus weight
- me
me
99,973 corpus weight
- você
você
99,972 corpus weight
- ser
ser
99,971 corpus weight
- seu
seu
99,970 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “você” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | você |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “você” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around você, apronoun. Corpus frequency is #29 among 501 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for você, with forms such as "ovcê", "vcoê", and "voccê". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "voo", "vós", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is você, spelled V-O-C-Ê.
Definition
- 1aquele a quem se fala ou escreve
- 2pessoa não especificada; alguém
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how você appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Você almoçou?
Ei, você: venha cá.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovcê
- vcoê
- voccê
- voêc
- vvocê
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of você - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "você", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.