vote

/\vɔt\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,128

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vote is aFrenchnoun. It means: Opinion exprimée, suffrage donné dans un corps politique, dans une assemblée délibérante, dans un collège électoral, dans une compagnie. Pronounced \vɔt\. It ranks #1,128 in French word frequency. Often confused with VT and vue.

Key facts for vote
PropertyValue
Headwordvote
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɔt\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,128
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vote in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vote is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,128 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for vote, with forms such as "ovte", "voet", and "votte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VT", "vue", "VTT", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is vote, spelled V-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Opinion exprimée, suffrage donné dans un corps politique, dans une assemblée délibérante, dans un collège électoral, dans une compagnie.
  2. 2
    Action de voter, acte par lequel un citoyen participe, en se prononçant dans un sens déterminé, au choix de ses représentants ou à une prise d'une décision.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovte,voet,votte,vtoe,vvote

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vote

Misspelling Variants of "vote"

ovte4voet4votte5vtoe4vvote5
Misspelling Variants of "vote"

Frequency rank: #1,128 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vote"?
"vote" is spelled V-O-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vɔt\.
What does "vote" mean?
As a noun, "vote" means: Opinion exprimée, suffrage donné dans un corps politique, dans une assemblée délibérante, dans un collège électoral, dans une compagnie.
What words are commonly confused with "vote"?
"vote" is commonly confused with "VT", "vue", "VTT". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vote"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vote" is \vɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vote" come from?
"vote" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.