Which to use
“vice” is a noun and “você” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,298
- “vice” frequency rank
- #29
- “você” frequency rank
- 1327
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | vice | você |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | indica aquele que substitui o principal (por exemplo em vice-presidente, vice-reitor, etc) | aquele a quem se fala ou escreve |
Letter map: vice vs você
Shared letters muted; letters that set vice and você apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Part-of-speech tell for vice / você
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vice is anoun and vocêapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1327, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
vice is recorded at frequency rank #1,298, classified as anoun. você is at rank #29, tagged as apron.
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 1327, this pair ranks #74,259 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of vice vs você
Shared letters: cv. Private to "vice": ei. Private to "você": oê.
"vice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- vice ← ivce · vcie · vicce · viec · vvice
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "vice" and "você" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "vice" vs "você" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Pair "vice" vs "você" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "vice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "você" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #74,259 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "vice" and "você" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vice 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 #74,259 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.