vitrovsvotoConfusable pair

Which to use

“vitro” and “voto” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#31,195
“vitro” frequency rank
#1,415
“voto” frequency rank
32610
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vitro voto
Definition vidro a ação de votar

Letter map: vitro vs voto

Shared letters muted; letters that set vitro and voto apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. vitro runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against voto's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
vitro
4 ch
voto

Spelling & dictionary notes on vitro vs voto

vitro and voto are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32610, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vitro is recorded at frequency rank #31,195, classified as anoun, pronounced /vi.ˈtrɔ/. voto is at rank #1,415, tagged as anoun.

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 32610, this pair ranks #35,149 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vitro vs voto

Shared letters: otv. Private to "vitro": ir. Private to "voto": -.

"vitro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "voto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vitro ← ivtro · virto · vitor · vitrro · vittro · vtiro · vvitro
  • voto ← ovto · voot · votto · vtoo · vvoto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vitro" for "voto" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "vitro" or "voto"?
"voto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,415 in our Portuguese list, against #31,195 for "vitro". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "vitro" vs "voto" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vitro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,149 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vitro" and "voto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vitral vs vitro". 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 #35,149 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