vice vs VIH, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“vice” is a noun and “VIH” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,298
“vice” frequency rank: #24,490
“VIH” frequency rank: 25788
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	vice	VIH
Definition	indica aquele que substitui o principal (por exemplo em vice-presidente, vice-reitor, etc)	vírus da imunodeficiência humana

Letter map: vice vs VIH

Shared letters muted; letters that set vice and VIH apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

vice

3 ch

VIH

Grammar separator: vice vs VIH

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vice is anoun and VIHanabbrev. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25788, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vice is recorded at frequency rank #1,298, classified as anoun. VIH is at rank #24,490, tagged as anabbrev.

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 25788, this pair ranks #43,459 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vice vs VIH

Shared letters: iv. Private to "vice": ce. Private to "VIH": h.

"vice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "VIH" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

vice ← ivce · vcie · vicce · viec · vvice

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vice" for "VIH" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vice" is a noun and "VIH" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "vice" or "VIH" show up more?

"vice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,298 in our Portuguese list, against #24,490 for "VIH". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "vice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "VIH" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #43,459 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vice" and "VIH" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vet vs VIH". 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 #43,459 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.