valevsvocêWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#576
“vale” frequency rank
#29
“você” frequency rank
605
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vale você
Definition planície entre duas montanhas ou colinas aquele a quem se fala ou escreve

Letter map: vale vs você

Shared letters muted; letters that set vale and você apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch
vale
4 ch
você

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vale is anoun and vocêapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 605, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vale is recorded at frequency rank #576, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈva.lɨ/. 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 605, this pair ranks #75,067 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vale vs você

Shared letters: v. Private to "vale": ael. Private to "você": coê.

"vale" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • valeavle · vael · vlae · vvale

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vale" and "você" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vale" is a noun and "você" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "vale" or "você"?
"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #576 for "vale". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list