visévsVossWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#6,909
“visé” frequency rank
#47,682
“Voss” frequency rank
54591
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visé Voss
Definition Fait de viser. Nom de famille.

Letter map: visé vs Voss

Shared letters muted; letters that set visé and Voss apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
visé
4 ch
Voss

Part-of-speech tell for visé / Voss

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: visé is anoun and Vossaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54591, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visé is recorded at frequency rank #6,909, classified as anoun, pronounced \vi.ze\. Voss is at rank #47,682, tagged as aname.

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 54591, this pair ranks #133,011 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of visé vs Voss

Shared letters: sv. Private to "visé": . Private to "Voss": o.

"visé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Vossovss · vsos · vvoss

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "visé" for "Voss" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "visé" is a noun and "Voss" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "visé" or "Voss" show up more?
"visé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,909 in our French list, against #47,682 for "Voss". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "visé" vs "Voss" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "visé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Voss" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #133,011 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visé" and "Voss" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Voss vs voy". 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 #133,011 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