visésvsVossWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#11,325
“visés” frequency rank
#47,682
“Voss” frequency rank
59007
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visés Voss
Definition Pluriel de visé. Nom de famille.

Letter map: visés vs Voss

Shared letters muted; letters that set visés and Voss apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. visés runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against Voss's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
visés
4 ch
Voss

Part-of-speech tell for visés / Voss

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: visés is anoun and Vossaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59007, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visés is recorded at frequency rank #11,325, 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 59007, this pair ranks #105,621 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of visés vs Voss

Shared letters: sv. Private to "visés": ié. Private to "Voss": o.

"visés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Voss ← ovss · vsos · vvoss

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "visés" and "Voss" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "visés" is a noun and "Voss" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "visés" vs "Voss" - which ranks higher?
"visés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,325 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.

Useful next steps

You've compared "visés" and "Voss". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "visés" 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 #105,621 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visés" 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 #105,621 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