voient

\vwa\

/\vwa\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « voient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

voient vs vont
67% similar
voient vs voit
67% similar
voient vs voies
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for voient
PropertyValue
Headwordvoient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\vwa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,652
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voient »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.voientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vigueur » (#2,651), « voile » (#2,653), « Turquie » (#2,650). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « voient » est au #2,652. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de voir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how voient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « Ils nous voient et rangent leur matos tant qu’on est sur place », note Antoine, avant d’accepter un nouveau selfie.
  2. 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.

ovient2vioent2voeint2voiennt1voientt1voietn2voinet2vvoient1
Edit distance from "voient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voient"?
"voient" is spelled V-O-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \vwa\.
What does "voient" mean?
As a verb, "voient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voir.
What words are commonly confused with "voient"?
"voient" is commonly confused with "vont", "voit", "voies". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "voient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voient" is \vwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voient" come from?
"voient" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list