Which to use
“voir” is a verb and “votre” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #107
- “voir” frequency rank
- #110
- “votre” frequency rank
- 217
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | voir | votre |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Percevoir l’image des objets par l’organe de la vue. | Deuxième personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui est à vous. Plusieurs possesseurs et un seul objet ou un possesseur, à qui on s'adresse poliment, et un seul objet. |
Where the eye mixes voir and votre
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: voir is \vwaʁ\ while votre is \vɔtʁ\. 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 (verb vs determiner), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 217, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
voir is recorded at frequency rank #107, classified as averb, pronounced \vwaʁ\. votre is at rank #110, tagged as adet, pronounced \vɔtʁ\.
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 217, this pair ranks #439,955 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of voir vs votre
Shared letters: orv. Private to "voir": i. Private to "votre": et.
"voir" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "votre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV