vacavsvocêConfusable pair

Quick tell: vaca is a noun, você is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“vaca” is a noun and “você” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,687
“vaca” frequency rank
#29
“você” frequency rank
4716
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vaca você
Definition feminino de boi aquele a quem se fala ou escreve

Letter map: vaca vs você

Shared letters muted; letters that set vaca and você apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
vaca
4 ch
você

Part-of-speech tell for vaca / você

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vaca is anoun and vocêapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4716, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vaca is recorded at frequency rank #4,687, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈväkɐ]. você is at rank #29, tagged as apron.

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 4716, this pair ranks #70,096 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vaca vs você

Shared letters: cv. Private to "vaca": a. Private to "você": .

"vaca" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vacaavca · vaac · vacca · vcaa · vvaca

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vaca" for "você" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vaca" is a noun and "você" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "vaca" vs "você" - which ranks higher?
"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #4,687 for "vaca". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "vaca" vs "você" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vaca" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "você" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #70,096 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vaca" and "você" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vaca vs vaiar". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #70,096 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list