Which to use
“avouent” and “avoues” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,694
- “avouent” frequency rank
- #45,458
- “avoues” frequency rank
- 78152
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | avouent | avoues |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe avouer. | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe avouer. |
Same sound, different letters: avouent vs avoues
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. avouent runs 7 letters (VCVVVCC) against avoues's 6 (VCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - avouent and avoues
This is the hard kind. avouent and avoues are pronounced identically (\a.vu\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78152, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
avouent is recorded at frequency rank #32,694, classified as averb, pronounced \a.vu\. avoues is at rank #45,458, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.vu\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 78152, this pair ranks #26,480 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of avouent vs avoues
Shared letters: aeouv. Private to "avouent": nt. Private to "avoues": s.
"avouent" · 7 letters · shape VCVVVCC · "avoues" · 6 letters · shape VCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "avouent" for "avoues" ever safe?
Frequency check: "avouent" vs "avoues" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "avouent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "avoues" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #26,480 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "avouent" and "avoues" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aves vs avoues". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #26,480 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.