vir vs viro, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“vir” is a verb and “viro” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#817
“vir” frequency rank: #20,468
“viro” frequency rank: 21285
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	vir	viro
Definition	transportar-se para o local onde está o interlocutor	homem, indivíduo adulto do sexo masculino

Letter map: vir vs viro

Shared letters muted; letters that set vir and viro apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch

vir

4 ch

viro

Part-of-speech tell for vir / viro

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vir is averb and viroanoun. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “vir” sits inside “viro”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21285, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vir is recorded at frequency rank #817, classified as averb. viro is at rank #20,468, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈvi.rɔ/.

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 21285, this pair ranks #49,023 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vir vs viro

Shared letters: irv. Private to "vir": -. Private to "viro": o.

"vir" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "viro" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

viro ← ivro · vior · virro · vrio · vviro

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vir" and "viro" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vir" is a verb and "viro" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "vir" or "viro"?

"vir" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #817 in our Portuguese list, against #20,468 for "viro". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "vir" vs "viro" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "vir" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "viro" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #49,023 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vir" and "viro" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo vs viro". 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 #49,023 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.