viréevsvoireWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: virée is a noun, voire is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“virée” is a noun and “voire” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,773
“virée” frequency rank
#1,464
“voire” frequency rank
18237
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature virée voire
Definition Sortie dans un but de promenade ou d’amusement. Et peut-être même ; et aussi.

Where the eye mixes virée and voire

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

5 ch
virée
5 ch
voire

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: virée is \vi.ʁe\ while voire is \vwaʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adverb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18237, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

virée is recorded at frequency rank #16,773, classified as anoun, pronounced \vi.ʁe\. voire is at rank #1,464, tagged as anadv, pronounced \vwaʁ\.

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 18237, this pair ranks #379,341 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of virée vs voire

Shared letters: eirv. Private to "virée": é. Private to "voire": o.

"virée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "voire" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voireovire · viore · voier · voirre · vorie · vvoire

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "virée" and "voire" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "virée" is a noun and "voire" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "virée" or "voire"?
"voire" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,464 in our French list, against #16,773 for "virée". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list