votre

/\vɔtʁ\/ det

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#110

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

votre is aFrenchdet. It means: Deuxième personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui est à vous. Plusieurs possesseurs et un seul objet ou un possesseur, à qui on s'adresse poliment, et un seul objet. Pronounced \vɔtʁ\. It ranks #110 in French word frequency. Often confused with voue and vouée.

Key facts for votre
PropertyValue
Headwordvotre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechDet
IPA\vɔtʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#110
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for votre is 5 letters long, classified as adet, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #110 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for votre, with forms such as "ovtre", "vorte", and "votrre". 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, "voue", "vouée", "voûté", 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 votre, spelled V-O-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui est à vous. Plusieurs possesseurs et un seul objet ou un possesseur, à qui on s'adresse poliment, et un seul objet.
  2. 2
    Employé par déférence et précédant un titre honorifique donné à des hauts dignitaires civils ou religieux.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovtre,vorte,votrre,vottre,vtore,vvotre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for votre

Misspelling Variants of "votre"

ovtre5vorte5votrre6vottre6vtore5vvotre6
Misspelling Variants of "votre"

Frequency rank: #110 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "votre"?
"votre" is spelled V-O-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vɔtʁ\.
What does "votre" mean?
As a det, "votre" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui est à vous. Plusieurs possesseurs et un seul objet ou un possesseur, à qui on s'adresse poliment, et un seul objet.
What words are commonly confused with "votre"?
"votre" is commonly confused with "voue", "vouée", "voûté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "votre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "votre" is \vɔtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "votre" come from?
"votre" 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.