Which to use
“voie” is a noun and “votée” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #781
- “voie” frequency rank
- #12,885
- “votée” frequency rank
- 13666
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | voie | votée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Partie de la chaussée dédiée et suffisante pour permettre le déroulement d’une file d’automobiles autres que des motocycles. | Participe passé féminin singulier de voter. |
Where the eye mixes voie and votée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: voie is \vwa\ while votée is \vɔ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13666, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
voie is recorded at frequency rank #781, classified as anoun, pronounced \vwa\. votée is at rank #12,885, 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 13666, this pair ranks #400,055 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of voie vs votée
Shared letters: eov. Private to "voie": i. Private to "votée": té.
"voie" · 4 letters · shape CVVV · "votée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- voie ← ovie · vioe · voei · vvoie