visãovsvitalWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: visão is a noun, vital is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“visão” is a noun and “vital” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,037
“visão” frequency rank
#5,696
“vital” frequency rank
6733
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visão vital
Definition um dos cinco sentidos relativo à vida

Letter map: visão vs vital

Shared letters muted; letters that set visão and vital apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
visão
5 ch
vital

Part-of-speech tell for visão / vital

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: visão is anoun and vitalanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6733, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visão is recorded at frequency rank #1,037, classified as anoun, pronounced /vi.ˈzɐ̃w̃/. vital is at rank #5,696, tagged as anadj.

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 6733, this pair ranks #67,628 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of visão vs vital

Shared letters: iv. Private to "visão": osã. Private to "vital": alt.

"visão" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "vital" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vitalivtal · viatl · vitall · vitla · vittal · vtial · vvital

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "visão" for "vital" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "visão" is a noun and "vital" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "visão" or "vital"?
"visão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,037 in our Portuguese list, against #5,696 for "vital". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "visão" vs "vital" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "visão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vital" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #67,628 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visão" and "vital" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vital vs vivaz". 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 #67,628 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