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.
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
- vous ← ovus · vosu · vouss · vuos · vvous
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "vous" and "voz" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "vous" or "voz" show up more?
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.