voz
The verdict
“voz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #612) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #612
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - som produzido pelas cordas vocais
Corpus desk
Index PT-voz · voz · Portuguese
voz · rank #612 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #612
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH tomar
Nearest frequency peer: tomar (-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 “voz”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ordem
ordem
99,392 corpus weight
- próximo
próximo
99,391 corpus weight
- tomar
tomar
99,390 corpus weight
- voz
voz
99,389 corpus weight
- ar
ar
99,388 corpus weight
- fevereiro
fevereiro
99,385 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “voz” 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 | voz |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “voz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for voz is neighbouring look-alikes ("vi", "vá", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #612 among 501 “V” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for voz, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vi", "vá", "vai", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is voz, spelled V-O-Z.
Definition
- 1som produzido pelas cordas vocais
- 2fala; manifestação verbal
- 3clamor
- 4ordem
- 5direito de falar, de se manifestar
- 6forma em que um verbo exprime se a ação está sendo praticada (voz ativa) ou sofrida pelo sujeito (voz passiva), ou praticada e recebida ao mesmo tempo (voz reflexiva ou voz média)
- 7trecho de uma composição musical cantado em tom harmônico com outro.
- 8anúncio acerca da ação que se põe a cabo, da qual se espera que o interlocutor não reaja
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Receberam voz de parada ao passar pelo trevo da cidade.
Ela faz a segunda voz.
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 "voz", not the corpus desk frequency band.