vitovsvoitWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#24,437
“vito” frequency rank
#459
“voit” frequency rank
24896
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vito voit
Definition Vigne, genre Vitis. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de voir.

Where the eye mixes vito and voit

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

4 ch
vito
4 ch
voit

Look-alike desk: vito vs voit

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: vito is \ˈvi.to\ while voit is \vwa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24896, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vito is recorded at frequency rank #24,437, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈvi.to\. voit is at rank #459, tagged as averb, pronounced \vwa\.

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 24896, this pair ranks #343,955 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vito vs voit

Shared letters: iotv. Private to "vito": -. Private to "voit": -.

"vito" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "voit" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vitoivto · vitto · vtio · vvito
  • voitovit · viot · voitt · voti · vvoit

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vito" and "voit" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vito" is a noun and "voit" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "vito" or "voit" show up more?
"voit" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #459 in our French list, against #24,437 for "vito". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "vito" and "voit" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vito" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #343,955 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vito" and "voit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vito vs viv". 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 #343,955 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