vasvsvoarTell them apart

Quick tell: vas is a noun, voar is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“vas” is a noun and “voar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,077
“vas” frequency rank
#4,776
“voar” frequency rank
42853
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vas voar
Definition vaso sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar

Letter map: vas vs voar

Shared letters muted; letters that set vas and voar apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. vas runs 3 letters (CVC) against voar's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
vas
4 ch
voar

Role in the sentence - vas and voar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vas is anoun and voaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42853, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vas is recorded at frequency rank #38,077, classified as anoun. voar is at rank #4,776, tagged as averb.

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 42853, this pair ranks #22,859 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vas vs voar

Shared letters: av. Private to "vas": s. Private to "voar": or.

"vas" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "voar" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voar ← ovar · vaor · voarr · vora · vvoar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vas" for "voar" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vas" is a noun and "voar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "vas" vs "voar" - which ranks higher?
"voar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,776 in our Portuguese list, against #38,077 for "vas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "vas" vs "voar" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #22,859 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vas" and "voar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vas vs vet". 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 #22,859 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