voto

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,415

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

voto is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a ação de votar It ranks #1,415 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with voz and vox.

Key facts for voto
PropertyValue
Headwordvoto
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,415
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of voto in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for voto is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,415 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for voto, with forms such as "ovto", "voot", and "votto". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "vox", "vovó", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is voto, spelled V-O-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    a ação de votar
  2. 2
    a cédula eleitoral
  3. 3
    promessa
  4. 4
    idioma do grupo fino-úgrico, quase extinto, falado na Íngria

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovto,voot,votto,vtoo,vvoto

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for voto

Misspelling Variants of "voto"

ovto4voot4votto5vtoo4vvoto5
Misspelling Variants of "voto"

Frequency rank: #1,415 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voto"?
"voto" is spelled V-O-T-O.
What does "voto" mean?
As a noun, "voto" means: a ação de votar
What words are commonly confused with "voto"?
"voto" is commonly confused with "voz", "vox", "vovó". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "voto" come from?
"voto" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.