vil vs vive, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“vil” is an adjective and “vive” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#26,593
“vil” frequency rank: #1,104
“vive” frequency rank: 27697
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	vil	vive
Definition	reles	terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo viver

Letter map: vil vs vive

Shared letters muted; letters that set vil and vive apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

vil

4 ch

vive

Part-of-speech tell for vil / vive

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vil is anadjective and viveaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27697, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vil is recorded at frequency rank #26,593, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈviɫ/. vive is at rank #1,104, tagged as averb.

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 27697, this pair ranks #41,249 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vil vs vive

Shared letters: iv. Private to "vil": l. Private to "vive": e.

"vil" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "vive" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

vive ← ivve · viev · vivve · vvie · vvive

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vil" for "vive" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vil" is an adjective and "vive" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "vil" or "vive" show up more?

"vive" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,104 in our Portuguese list, against #26,593 for "vil". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "vil" and "vive". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "vil" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "vive" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #41,249 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vil" and "vive" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo vs vil". 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 #41,249 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.