voiesvsvoitTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#2,398
“voies” frequency rank
#459
“voit” frequency rank
2857
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature voies voit
Definition Pluriel de voie. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de voir.

Same sound, different letters: voies vs voit

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters. voies runs 5 letters (CVVVC) against voit's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
voies
4 ch
voit

Homophone desk: voies vs voit

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: voies and voit carry the same recorded pronunciation, \vwa\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2857, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

voies is recorded at frequency rank #2,398, classified as anoun, pronounced \vwa\. 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 2857, this pair ranks #435,340 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of voies vs voit

Shared letters: iov. Private to "voies": es. Private to "voit": t.

"voies" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC  ·  "voit" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voies ← ovies · vioes · voeis · voiess · voise · vvoies
  • voit ← ovit · viot · voitt · voti · vvoit

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "voies" and "voit" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "voies" is a noun and "voit" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "voies" or "voit" show up more?
"voit" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #459 in our French list, against #2,398 for "voies". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"voies" and "voit" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "voies" 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 #435,340 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "voies" and "voit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "voies vs Voss". 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 #435,340 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