videvsvídeoTell them apart

Quick tell: vide is a conjunction, vídeo is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“vide” is a conjunction and “vídeo” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,417
“vide” frequency rank
#249
“vídeo” frequency rank
13666
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vide vídeo
Definition usado para assinalar exemplo ou referência; o mesmo que "a exemplo de", "haja vista que", "observando-se que", "visto que" relativo à gravação de determinadas imagens e de áudios num suporte magnético e sua reprodução num televisor

Letter map: vide vs vídeo

Shared letters muted; letters that set vide and vídeo apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
vide
5 ch
vídeo

Part-of-speech tell for vide / vídeo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vide is aconjunction and vídeoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13666, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vide is recorded at frequency rank #13,417, classified as aconj. vídeo is at rank #249, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈvi.dju/.

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 13666, this pair ranks #58,611 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vide vs vídeo

Shared letters: dev. Private to "vide": i. Private to "vídeo": .

"vide" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "vídeo" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • videivde · vdie · vidde · vied · vvide

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vide" and "vídeo" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vide" is a conjunction and "vídeo" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "vide" vs "vídeo" - which ranks higher?
"vídeo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #249 in our Portuguese list, against #13,417 for "vide". 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 "vide" and "vídeo". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vídeo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #58,611 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vide" and "vídeo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vide 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 #58,611 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