vivevsvocêWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: vive is a verb, você is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#1,104
“vive” frequency rank
#29
“você” frequency rank
1133
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vive você
Definition terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo viver aquele a quem se fala ou escreve

Letter map: vive vs você

Shared letters muted; letters that set vive and você apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch
vive
4 ch
você

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vive is averb and vocêapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1133, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vive is recorded at frequency rank #1,104, classified as averb. você is at rank #29, tagged as apron.

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 1133, this pair ranks #74,484 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vive vs você

Shared letters: v. Private to "vive": ei. Private to "você": coê.

"vive" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • viveivve · viev · vivve · vvie · vvive

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vive" and "você" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vive" is a verb and "você" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "vive" or "você"?
"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #1,104 for "vive". 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 "vive" and "você". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vive" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "você" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #74,484 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vive" and "você" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vivaz vs vive". 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

PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list