voz
The verdict
“voz” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #612 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #612
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - som produzido pelas cordas vocais
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) |
Where “voz” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for voz is 3 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #612 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
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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Using “voz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is V-O-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “vi” - see the side-by-side comparison. voz vs vi
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.