vós
[vɔʃ], [vɔs]
The verdict
“vós” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,014) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,014
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - usado para indicar as pessoas a quem se fala
Corpus desk
Index PT-vos · vós · Portuguese
vós · rank #6,014 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,014
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH ya
Nearest frequency peer: ya (+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 “vós”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- testamento
testamento
93,995 corpus weight
- tripulação
tripulação
93,993 corpus weight
- trono
trono
93,992 corpus weight
- vós
vós
93,987 corpus weight
- ya
ya
93,986 corpus weight
- amador
amador
93,978 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “vós” 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 | vós |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [vɔʃ], [vɔs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “vós”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vós is neighbouring look-alikes ("voz", "vox", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [vɔʃ], [vɔs]. Frequency #6,014 among 501 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for vós in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "vox", "voto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 vós, spelled V-Ó-S.
Definition
- 1usado para indicar as pessoas a quem se fala
- 2vossa senhoria, vossa majestade
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vós appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: É mais aplicado em textos literários, religiosos, políticos, jurídicos ou científicos, inclusive questões de concursos públicos. Na linguagem falada é utilizado quase exclusivamente apenas em situações extremamente formais ou solenes, embora o seu uso diário seja ainda comum em certas zonas do interior de Portugal.
Nota: Neste caso, o interlocutor pode ser uma única pessoa, a forma vós funciona então como deferência de respeito.
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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