você vs voz, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#29
“você” frequency rank: #612
“voz” frequency rank: 641
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	você	voz
Definition	aquele a quem se fala ou escreve	som produzido pelas cordas vocais

Letter map: você vs voz

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

4 ch

você

3 ch

voz

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: você is apronoun and vozanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 641, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

você is recorded at frequency rank #29, classified as apron. voz is at rank #612, 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 641, this pair ranks #75,027 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of você vs voz

Shared letters: ov. Private to "você": cê. Private to "voz": z.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "você" is a pronoun and "voz" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "você" or "voz"?

"você" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29 in our Portuguese list, against #612 for "voz". 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 "voz". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "você" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "voz" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #75,027 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"você" and "voz" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vet vs voz". Nearby pair

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