veiovsvilTell them apart

Quick tell: veio is a noun, vil is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“veio” is a noun and “vil” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#748
“veio” frequency rank
#26,593
“vil” frequency rank
27341
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature veio vil
Definition filão, na extração mineira acúmulo de mineral em camada, que segue uma direção, fieira reles

Letter map: veio vs vil

Shared letters muted; letters that set veio and vil apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
veio
3 ch
vil

Part-of-speech tell for veio / vil

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: veio is anoun and vilanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27341, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

veio is recorded at frequency rank #748, classified as anoun. vil is at rank #26,593, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈviɫ/.

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 27341, this pair ranks #41,646 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of veio vs vil

Shared letters: iv. Private to "veio": eo. Private to "vil": l.

"veio" · 4 letters · shape CVVV  ·  "vil" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • veioevio · veoi · vieo · vveio

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "veio" and "vil" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "veio" is a noun and "vil" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "veio" vs "vil" - which ranks higher?
"veio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #748 in our Portuguese list, against #26,593 for "vil". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "veio" and "vil". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "veio" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vil" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,646 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "veio" and "vil" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo vs vil". 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 #41,646 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