eovsevoConfusable pair

Quick tell: eo is a noun, evo is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“eo” is a noun and “evo” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,418
“eo” frequency rank
#33,677
“evo” frequency rank
77095
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature eo evo
Definition Je : première personne du singulier au cas sujet. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe evañ/evek/evet.

Letter map: eo vs evo

Shared letters muted; letters that set eo and evo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. eo runs 2 letters (VV) against evo's 3 (VCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

2 ch
eo
3 ch
evo

Part-of-speech tell for eo / evo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: eo is anoun and evoaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77095, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

eo is recorded at frequency rank #43,418, classified as anoun. evo is at rank #33,677, tagged as averb, pronounced \ˈeː.vo\.

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 77095, this pair ranks #29,332 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of eo vs evo

Shared letters: eo. Private to "eo": -. Private to "evo": v.

"eo" · 2 letters · shape VV  ·  "evo" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "eo" for "evo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "eo" is a noun and "evo" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "eo" vs "evo" - which ranks higher?
"evo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,677 in our French list, against #43,418 for "eo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "eo" and "evo".

  • Full dictionary entry for "eo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "evo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,332 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "eo" and "evo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "eo vs EPO". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #29,332 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list