you

pron

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The verdict

“you” sits in 10 confusable pairs (corpus #978) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#978
frequency rank, Portuguese
26
“Y” headwords
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular, tu, você

Corpus desk

Index PT-you · you · Portuguese

you · rank #978 · 0 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #978
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 26
  • PHOTO-FINISH zona

Nearest frequency peer: zona (+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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “you”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “you” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

you vs your
75% similar
you vs young
60% similar
you vs youth
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for you
PropertyValue
Headwordyou
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#978
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “you” sits in Portuguese frequency

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).you lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for you is neighbouring look-alikes ("your", "young", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #978 among 26 “Y” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for you, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "your", "young", "youth", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is you, spelled Y-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular, tu, você
  2. 2
    caso objetivo da segunda pessoa do singular, te, ti
  3. 3
    caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do plural, vós, vocês
  4. 4
    caso objetivo da segunda pessoa do plural, vos, vós

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how you appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. You, Robert, are my friend." (Você, Robert, é meu amigo)
  2. I know you, Robert.

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.

PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "you"?
"you" is spelled Y-O-U.
What does "you" mean?
As a pronoun, "you" means: caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular, tu, você
What words are commonly confused with "you"?
"you" is commonly confused with "your", "young", "youth". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "you" come from?
"you" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "you", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sai#998dor#934cor#1,065usa#1,103

What to do next

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  • "you" maps to 10 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "your". View pair
  • Usage frequency rank #978 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
  • Browse more Portuguese words in the "Y" letter cohort. Y–Z browse

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list