vocêvsvoltTell them apart

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

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.

4 ch
você
4 ch
volt

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": . Private to "volt": lt.

"você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "volt" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voltovlt · vlot · vollt · voltt · votl · vvolt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "você" and "volt" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "você" is a pronoun and "volt" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "você" or "volt" show up more?
"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #35,827 for "volt". 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 "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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list