vos
\vo\
The verdict
“vos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #207) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #207
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sont à vous, qui vous appartiennent. Deuxième personne du pluriel. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets, ou un seul possesseur (forme de politesse) et plusieurs objets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vos · vos · French
vos · rank #207 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #207
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH veux
Nearest frequency peer: veux (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « vos »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- politique
politique
99,797 corpus weight
- reste
reste
99,796 corpus weight
- veux
veux
99,795 corpus weight
- vos
vos
99,794 corpus weight
- celui
celui
99,792 corpus weight
- chaque
chaque
99,791 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vos » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | vos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \vo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vos »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vos is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vs", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced \vo\. Frequency #207 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Qui sont à vous, qui vous appartiennent. Deuxième personne du pluriel. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets, ou un seul possesseur (forme de politesse) et plusieurs objets.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vs", "VR", 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 vos, spelled V-O-S.
Definition
- 1Qui sont à vous, qui vous appartiennent. Deuxième personne du pluriel. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets, ou un seul possesseur (forme de politesse) et plusieurs objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avez-vous tous vos bagages ?
Vos papiers se sont envolés, madame.
This word in other languages
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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