votovsvultoWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#1,415
“voto” frequency rank
#30,780
“vulto” frequency rank
32195
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature voto vulto
Definition a ação de votar rosto

Letter map: voto vs vulto

Shared letters muted; letters that set voto and vulto apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. voto runs 4 letters (CVCV) against vulto's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
voto
5 ch
vulto

Corpus notes: voto and vulto

voto and vulto 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 32195, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

voto is recorded at frequency rank #1,415, classified as anoun. vulto is at rank #30,780, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈvuɫ.tu/.

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 32195, this pair ranks #35,695 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of voto vs vulto

Shared letters: otv. Private to "voto": -. Private to "vulto": lu.

"voto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "vulto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voto ← ovto · voot · votto · vtoo · vvoto
  • vulto ← uvlto · vluto · vullto · vulot · vultto · vutlo · vvulto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "voto" and "vulto" 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.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "voto" or "vulto" show up more?
"voto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,415 in our Portuguese list, against #30,780 for "vulto". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "voto" vs "vulto" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "voto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vulto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,695 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "voto" and "vulto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "velo vs vulto". 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 #35,695 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