Français homophones

oit/ouate/wat/watt/watts/what

"oit" is a pronoun; "ouate" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #20 of 9,139 French groups.

Data vintage 2026-05-06

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "oit" arrives as a pronoun, while "ouate" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

No shared spelling stem: "oit" is 3 letters, "ouate" is 5; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "oit" is 3 letters, "wat" is 3; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "oit" is 3 letters, "watt" is 4; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "oit" is 3 letters, "watts" is 5; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "oit" is 3 letters, "what" is 4; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "ouate" is 5 letters, "wat" is 3; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "ouate" is 5 letters, "watt" is 4; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "ouate" is 5 letters, "watts" is 5; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "ouate" is 5 letters, "what" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Shared stem "wat" then splits - "wat" (3 letters) vs "watt" (4).
Shared stem "wat" then splits - "wat" (3 letters) vs "watts" (5).
No shared spelling stem: "wat" is 3 letters, "what" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Shared stem "watt" then splits - "watt" (4 letters) vs "watts" (5).
No shared spelling stem: "watt" is 4 letters, "what" is 4; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "watts" is 5 letters, "what" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across oit, ouate, wat, watt, watts, what: t. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

oit
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VVC
Inventory iot · private io
ouate
5 letters · 4 vowels · shape VVVCV
Inventory aeotu · private aeou
wat
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory atw · private aw
watt
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory atw · private aw
watts
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory astw · private asw
what
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCVC
Inventory ahtw · private ahw

Pick the spelling from the meaning

Write "oit" when you mean: Toi.
Write "ouate" when you mean: Bourre de matière textile (surtout de coton, de nos jours aussi en cellulose) préparée pour garnir les doublures de vêtement, la literie,…
Write "wat" when you mean: Temple, monastère ou école bouddhiste au Cambodge, au Laos ou en Thaïlande.
Write "watt" when you mean: Unité de mesure de puissance du Système international, dont le symbole est W.
Write "watts" when you mean: Pluriel de watt.
Write "what" when you mean: Quoi ? Comment ?

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

ouate ← oaute · ouaet · ouatte · outae · uoate
watt ← awtt · wtat · wwatt
watts ← awtts · wats · watst · wattss · wtats · wwatts
what ← hwat · waht · whatt · whhat · whta · wwhat

Each spelling

oit

pronoun · /\wat\/ · #27,163 frequency

Toi.

ouate

noun · /\wat\/ · #40,900 frequency

Bourre de matière textile (surtout de coton, de nos jours aussi en cellulose) préparée pour garnir les doublures de vêtement, la literie, pour rembourrer les sièges.

wat

noun · /\wat\/ · #21,504 frequency

Temple, monastère ou école bouddhiste au Cambodge, au Laos ou en Thaïlande.

watt

noun · /\wat\/ · #27,663 frequency

Unité de mesure de puissance du Système international, dont le symbole est W.

watts

noun · /\wat\/ · #16,777 frequency

Pluriel de watt.

what

intj · /\wat\/ · #6,911 frequency

Quoi ? Comment ?