vice vs vine, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#1,298
“vice” frequency rank: #34,967
“vine” frequency rank: 36265
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	vice	vine
Definition	indica aquele que substitui o principal (por exemplo em vice-presidente, vice-reitor, etc)	videira

Letter map: vice vs vine

Shared letters muted; letters that set vice and vine apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

vice

4 ch

vine

Corpus notes: vice and vine

vice and vine 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 a single letter - c in “vice” becomes n in “vine”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36265, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vice is recorded at frequency rank #1,298, classified as anoun. vine is at rank #34,967, tagged as anoun, pronounced /vaɪn/.

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 36265, this pair ranks #30,596 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vice vs vine

Shared letters: eiv. Private to "vice": c. Private to "vine": n.

"vice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "vine" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

vice ← ivce · vcie · vicce · viec · vvice
vine ← ivne · vien · vinne · vnie · vvine

Frequently Asked Questions

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

No. They differ by a single letter - c in “vice” becomes n in “vine”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Frequency check: "vice" vs "vine" - which ranks higher?

"vice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,298 in our Portuguese list, against #34,967 for "vine". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "vice" and "vine". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "vice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "vine" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #30,596 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vice" and "vine" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vine vs Vini". 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 #30,596 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.