VedettevsvedettesWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Vedette is a name, vedettes is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Vedette” is a name and “vedettes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,129
“Vedette” frequency rank
#16,033
“vedettes” frequency rank
23162
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Vedette vedettes
Definition Nom donné à une série de voitures françaises de haut de gamme produites par Ford France, puis par Simca, de 1948 à 1961. Pluriel de vedette.

Same sound, different letters: Vedette vs vedettes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. Vedette runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against vedettes's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
Vedette
8 ch
vedettes

Homophone desk: Vedette vs vedettes

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: Vedette and vedettes carry the same recorded pronunciation, \və.dɛt\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is aname, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “Vedette” sits inside “vedettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23162, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Vedette is recorded at frequency rank #7,129, classified as aname, pronounced \və.dɛt\. vedettes is at rank #16,033, tagged as anoun, pronounced \və.dɛt\.

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 23162, this pair ranks #354,016 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Vedette vs vedettes

Shared letters: detv. Private to "Vedette": -. Private to "vedettes": s.

"Vedette" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "vedettes" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Vedette ← evdette · vdeette · veddette · vedete · vedetet · vedtete · veedtte · vvedette
  • vedettes ← evdettes · vdeettes · veddettes · vedetes · vedetets · vedettess · vedettse · vedtetes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Vedette" and "vedettes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Vedette" is a name and "vedettes" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Vedette" or "vedettes"?
"Vedette" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,129 in our French list, against #16,033 for "vedettes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "Vedette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vedettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #354,016 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Vedette" and "vedettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Vedette vs Vénétie". 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 #354,016 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