vá vs voz, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“vá” is an intj and “voz” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,517
“vá” frequency rank: #612
“voz” frequency rank: 2129
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	vá	voz
Definition	para indicar moderação, para prevenir de não provocar dano	som produzido pelas cordas vocais

Letter map: vá vs voz

Shared letters muted; letters that set vá and voz apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch

vá

3 ch

voz

Part-of-speech tell for vá / voz

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vá is anintj and vozanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2129, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vá is recorded at frequency rank #1,517, classified as anintj, pronounced /ˈva/. voz is at rank #612, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 2129, this pair ranks #73,355 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vá vs voz

Shared letters: v. Private to "vá": á. Private to "voz": oz.

"vá" · 2 letters · shape CV · "voz" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vá" and "voz" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vá" is an intj and "voz" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "vá" or "voz"?

"voz" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #612 in our Portuguese list, against #1,517 for "vá". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "vá" and "voz".

Full dictionary entry for "vá" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "voz" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #73,355 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vá" and "voz" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vá vs vet". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #73,355 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.