Which to use
“você” is a pronoun and “volt” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #29
- “você” frequency rank
- #35,827
- “volt” frequency rank
- 35856
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | você | volt |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | aquele a quem se fala ou escreve | unidade de medida de voltagem; o mesmo que vóltio |
Letter map: você vs volt
Shared letters muted; letters that set você and volt apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Role in the sentence - você and volt
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: você is apronoun and voltanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35856, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
você is recorded at frequency rank #29, classified as apron. volt is at rank #35,827, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈvɔɫt/.
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 35856, this pair ranks #31,104 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of você vs volt
Shared letters: ov. Private to "você": cê. Private to "volt": lt.
"você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "volt" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- volt ← ovlt · vlot · vollt · voltt · votl · vvolt
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "você" and "volt" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "você" or "volt" show up more?
What to do next
You've compared "você" and "volt". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "você" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "volt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #31,104 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "você" and "volt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo vs volt". 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 #31,104 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.