vousvsvozWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#20,751
“vous” frequency rank
#612
“voz” frequency rank
21363
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vous voz
Definition vós, vocês, pronome pessoal da segunda pessoa do plural. som produzido pelas cordas vocais

Letter map: vous vs voz

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

4 ch
vous
3 ch
voz

Part-of-speech tell for vous / voz

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vous is apronoun and vozanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21363, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vous is recorded at frequency rank #20,751, classified as apron, pronounced /vu/. 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 21363, this pair ranks #48,946 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vous vs voz

Shared letters: ov. Private to "vous": su. Private to "voz": z.

"vous" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "voz" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vousovus · vosu · vouss · vuos · vvous

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vous" and "voz" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vous" is a pronoun and "voz" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "vous" or "voz" show up more?
"voz" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #612 in our Portuguese list, against #20,751 for "vous". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "vous" vs "voz" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vous" 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 #48,946 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vous" and "voz" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Vénus vs vous". 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 #48,946 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