voient
\vwa\
The verdict
“voient” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,652. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,652
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voient · voient · French
voient · rank #2,652 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,652
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vigueur
Nearest frequency peer: vigueur (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « voient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transfert
transfert
97,352 corpus weight
- Turquie
Turquie
97,351 corpus weight
- vigueur
vigueur
97,350 corpus weight
- voient
voient
97,349 corpus weight
- voile
voile
97,348 corpus weight
- W
W
97,347 corpus weight
What this shows « voient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around voient (IPA \vwa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,652 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for voient, with forms such as "ovient", "vioent", and "voeint". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vont", "voit", "voies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is voient, spelled V-O-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de voir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ils nous voient et rangent leur matos tant qu’on est sur place », note Antoine, avant d’accepter un nouveau selfie.
Phénomène inversé pour celles qui s’en sortent mieux économiquement et se voient « dé-tsiganisées » et requalifiées de « Forains » (…).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovient
- vioent
- voeint
- voiennt
- voientt
- voietn
- voinet
- vvoient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "voient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).