voies vs votées, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,398
“voies” frequency rank: #25,165
“votées” frequency rank: 27563
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	voies	votées
Definition	Pluriel de voie.	Participe passé féminin pluriel de voter.

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set voies and votées apart are highlighted. They share 4 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

5 ch

voies

6 ch

votées

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: voies is \vwa\ while votées 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 27563, 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\. votées is at rank #25,165, 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 27563, this pair ranks #328,159 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of voies vs votées

Shared letters: eosv. Private to "voies": i. Private to "votées": té.

"voies" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC · "votées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

voies ← ovies · vioes · voeis · voiess · voise · vvoies

Frequency comparison

voies#2,398

votées#25,165

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "voies" and "votées" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "voies" is a noun and "votées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "voies" or "votées"?

"voies" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,398 in our French list, against #25,165 for "votées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering voies vs votées

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “voies”; for a verb, it's “votées”.
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