vocêvsvotoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#29
“você” frequency rank
#1,415
“voto” frequency rank
1444
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature você voto
Definition aquele a quem se fala ou escreve a ação de votar

Letter map: você vs voto

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

4 ch
você
4 ch
voto

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: você is apronoun and votoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1444, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

você is recorded at frequency rank #29, classified as apron. voto is at rank #1,415, tagged as anoun.

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 1444, this pair ranks #74,133 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of você vs voto

Shared letters: ov. Private to "você": . Private to "voto": t.

"você" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "voto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • votoovto · voot · votto · vtoo · vvoto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "você" and "voto" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "você" is a pronoun and "voto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "você" or "voto"?
"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #1,415 for "voto". 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 "voto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "você" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #74,133 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "você" and "voto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo vs voto". 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