vervsvoarWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#94
“ver” frequency rank
#4,776
“voar” frequency rank
4870
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ver voar
Definition maneira de considerar um assunto sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar

Letter map: ver vs voar

Shared letters muted; letters that set ver and voar apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
ver
4 ch
voar

Role in the sentence - ver and voar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ver is anoun and voaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4870, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ver is recorded at frequency rank #94, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈveɾ/, /ˈve/. 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 4870, this pair ranks #69,891 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ver vs voar

Shared letters: rv. Private to "ver": e. Private to "voar": ao.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voarovar · vaor · voarr · vora · vvoar

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ver" for "voar" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ver" is a noun and "voar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ver" or "voar"?
"ver" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #94 in our Portuguese list, against #4,776 for "voar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "ver" 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 #69,891 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ver" and "voar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velar vs voar". 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 #69,891 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