voou
/vʊ.ˈow/, /vʊ.ˈo/
The verdict
“voou” sits in 15 confusable pairs (corpus #11,192) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,192
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo voar
Corpus desk
Index PT-voou · voou · Portuguese
voou · rank #11,192 · 4 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,192
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH vomitar
Nearest frequency peer: vomitar (-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 “voou”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- viajante
viajante
88,816 corpus weight
- viatura
viatura
88,815 corpus weight
- viral
viral
88,812 corpus weight
- vomitar
vomitar
88,810 corpus weight
- voou
voou
88,809 corpus weight
- vínculo
vínculo
88,808 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “voou” 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 | voou |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /vʊ.ˈow/, /vʊ.ˈo/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “voou”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for voou is neighbouring look-alikes ("voz", "vós", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /vʊ.ˈow/, /vʊ.ˈo/. Frequency #11,192 among 501 “V” headwords. Gloss: "terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo voar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for voou, with forms such as "ovou", "vou", and "vouo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "vós", "vox", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is voou, spelled V-O-O-U.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo voar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovou
- vou
- vouo
- vvoou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voou - 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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "voou", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).