viréesvsvotéesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#48,258
“virées” frequency rank
#25,165
“votées” frequency rank
73423
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature virées votées
Definition Pluriel de virée. Participe passé féminin pluriel de voter.

Where the eye mixes virées and votées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. virées and votées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
virées
6 ch
votées

Look-alike desk: virées vs votées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: virées is \vi.ʁe\ while votées is \vɔ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73423, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

virées is recorded at frequency rank #48,258, classified as anoun, pronounced \vi.ʁe\. votées is at rank #25,165, tagged as averb, pronounced \vɔ.te\.

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 73423, this pair ranks #40,521 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of virées vs votées

Shared letters: esvé. Private to "virées": ir. Private to "votées": ot.

"virées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC  ·  "votées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "virées" and "votées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "virées" is a noun and "votées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "virées" or "votées" show up more?
"votées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,165 in our French list, against #48,258 for "virées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "virées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "votées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,521 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "virées" and "votées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "virées vs vouées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #40,521 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