Which to use
“ôté” and “oyez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #31,318
- “ôté” frequency rank
- #39,920
- “oyez” frequency rank
- 71238
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ôté | oyez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe ôter. | Deuxième personne de l’indicatif présent du verbe ouïr. |
Where the eye mixes ôté and oyez
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. No shared run - shape, not overlap, is the trap. ôté runs 3 letters (VCV) against oyez's 4 (VVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between ôté and oyez
A purely visual mix-up. ôté (\o.te\) and oyez (\ɔ.je\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71238, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ôté is recorded at frequency rank #31,318, classified as averb, pronounced \o.te\. oyez is at rank #39,920, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɔ.je\.
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 71238, this pair ranks #48,314 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of ôté vs oyez
Shared letters: none. Private to "ôté": téô. Private to "oyez": eoyz.
"ôté" · 3 letters · shape VCV · "oyez" · 4 letters · shape VVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- oyez ← oeyz · oyezz · oyyez · oyze · yoez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "ôté" for "oyez" ever safe?
Frequency check: "ôté" vs "oyez" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "ôté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "oyez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #48,314 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ôté" and "oyez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ones vs oyez". 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 #48,314 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.