you

pron

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#978

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

you is aPortuguesepron. It means: caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular, tu, você It ranks #978 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with your and young.

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

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for you is 3 letters long, classified as apron. 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for you in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "your", "young", "youth", 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 you, spelled Y-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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

Frequency rank: #978 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "you"?
"you" is spelled Y-O-U.
What does "you" mean?
As a pron, "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. 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 Y 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.