voo
/ˈvo.u/
The verdict
“voo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,051) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,051
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de voar
Corpus desk
Index PT-voo · voo · Portuguese
voo · rank #3,051 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,051
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH visual
Nearest frequency peer: visual (-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 “voo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- tabela
tabela
96,956 corpus weight
- trinta
trinta
96,954 corpus weight
- visual
visual
96,951 corpus weight
- voo
voo
96,950 corpus weight
- âmbito
âmbito
96,949 corpus weight
- anjo
anjo
96,946 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “voo” 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 | voo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvo.u/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “voo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for voo is neighbouring look-alikes ("voz", "vós", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈvo.u/. Frequency #3,051 among 501 “V” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for voo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "vós", "vox", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is voo, spelled V-O-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de voar
- 2modo de locomoção através do ar
- 3elevação por projeção
- 4queda de ponto elevado, controlada ou não
- 5deriva da imaginação; sonho
- 6elevação da inteligência, do talento ou dos ideais
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O voo dos jatos é mais rápido que o da mais rápida das aves.
Catapultado, iniciou o voo para entrar no castelo.
This word in other languages
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "voo", not the corpus desk frequency band.