voarvsvocêWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#4,776
“voar” frequency rank
#29
“você” frequency rank
4805
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature voar você
Definition sustentar-se ou mover-se no ar aquele a quem se fala ou escreve

Letter map: voar vs você

Shared letters muted; letters that set voar and você apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
voar
4 ch
você

Part-of-speech tell for voar / você

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: voar is averb and vocêapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4805, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

voar is recorded at frequency rank #4,776, 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 4805, this pair ranks #69,971 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of voar vs você

Shared letters: ov. Private to "voar": ar. Private to "você": .

"voar" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voarovar · vaor · voarr · vora · vvoar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "voar" and "você" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "voar" is a verb and "você" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "voar" vs "você" - which ranks higher?
"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #4,776 for "voar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "voar" and "você".

  • Full dictionary entry for "voar" 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 #69,971 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "voar" and "você" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velar vs voar". 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 #69,971 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