Voss

name

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The verdict

“Voss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,682) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#47,682
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-voss · Voss · French

Voss · rank #47,682 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,682
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vivrez

Nearest frequency peer: vivrez (-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 « Voss »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Voss » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

Voss vs vs
25% similar
Voss vs vus
25% similar
Voss vs vox
25% similar

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

Key facts for Voss
PropertyValue
HeadwordVoss
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters4
Frequency rank#47,682
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Voss »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vivrez » (#47,681), « vivrai » (#47,680), « Wiener » (#47,684). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « Voss » est au #47,682. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Voss is neighbouring look-alikes ("vs", "vus", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #47,682 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Voss, with forms such as "ovss", "vsos", and "vvoss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vs", "vus", "vox", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Voss, spelled V-O-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sorties sans trembler d’un « groupe de la mort » avec l’Espagne et le Danemark, finalistes il y a cinq ans, les joueuses de Marina Voss-Tecklenburg ont été bousculées en quart par l’Autriche et en demie par la France, sans réellement trembler.
  2. Pour illuminer votre table, le bougeoir cerf Vivaldi avec son jabot de chez Werner Voss fera son petit effet malgré le fait qu’il soit en plastique.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ovss
  • vsos
  • vvoss

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Voss - 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.

ovss2vsos2vvoss1
Edit distance from "Voss"

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 "Voss"?
"Voss" is spelled V-O-S-S.
What does "Voss" mean?
As a proper noun, "Voss" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Voss"?
"Voss" is commonly confused with "vs", "vus", "vox". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Voss" come from?
"Voss" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Voss", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

wink#47,685yogi#47,688zouk#47,693atos#47,734

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list