you
The verdict
“you” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #978 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #978
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular, tu, você
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 | you |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “you” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for you is 3 letters long, classified as a pronoun. Corpus data places it at rank #978 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular, tu, você
- 2caso objetivo da segunda pessoa do singular, te, ti
- 3caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do plural, vós, vocês
- 4caso objetivo da segunda pessoa do plural, vos, vós
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 “you”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Y-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “your” - see the side-by-side comparison. you vs your
- 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.