você vs vós, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#29
“você” frequency rank: #6,014
“vós” frequency rank: 6043
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	você	vós
Definition	aquele a quem se fala ou escreve	usado para indicar as pessoas a quem se fala

Letter map: você vs vós

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

4 ch

você

3 ch

vós

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

você and vós 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 6043, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

você is recorded at frequency rank #29, classified as apron. vós is at rank #6,014, tagged as apron, pronounced [vɔʃ], [vɔs].

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 6043, this pair ranks #68,479 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of você vs vós

Shared letters: v. Private to "você": coê. Private to "vós": só.

"você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "vós" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "você" and "vós" be used interchangeably?

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, "você" or "vós"?

"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #6,014 for "vós". 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 "vós". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "você" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "vós" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #68,479 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"você" and "vós" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vet vs vós". Nearby pair

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