vetvsvotoWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“vet” and “voto” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#45,643
“vet” frequency rank
#1,415
“voto” frequency rank
47058
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vet voto
Definition veterinário a ação de votar

Letter map: vet vs voto

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

3 ch
vet
4 ch
voto

Pair insight - vet / voto

vet and voto are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47058, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vet is recorded at frequency rank #45,643, classified as anoun, pronounced /vɛt/. voto is at rank #1,415, tagged as anoun.

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 47058, this pair ranks #18,223 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of vet vs voto

Shared letters: tv. Private to "vet": e. Private to "voto": o.

"vet" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "voto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voto ← ovto · voot · votto · vtoo · vvoto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vet" and "voto" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "vet" vs "voto" - which ranks higher?
"voto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,415 in our Portuguese list, against #45,643 for "vet". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "vet" and "voto".

  • Full dictionary entry for "vet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,223 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vet" and "voto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo 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 #18,223 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