voiturevsvoituresWhich spelling fits?

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“voiture” and “voitures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#537
“voiture” frequency rank
#1,644
“voitures” frequency rank
2181
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature voiture voitures
Definition Véhicule consistant en une caisse montée sur des roues. Pluriel de voiture.

Same sound, different letters: voiture vs voitures

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. voiture runs 7 letters (CVVCVCV) against voitures's 8 (CVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
voiture
8 ch
voitures

Same sound, different spelling - voiture / voitures

This is the hard kind. voiture and voitures are pronounced identically (\vwa.tyʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “voiture” sits inside “voitures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2181, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

voiture is recorded at frequency rank #537, classified as anoun, pronounced \vwa.tyʁ\. voitures is at rank #1,644, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vwa.tyʁ\.

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 2181, this pair ranks #436,627 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of voiture vs voitures

Shared letters: eiortuv. Private to "voiture": -. Private to "voitures": s.

"voiture" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV  ·  "voitures" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voiture ← oviture · vioture · voitrue · voitture · voituer · voiturre · voiutre · votiure
  • voitures ← ovitures · viotures · voitrues · voittures · voituers · voituress · voiturres · voiturse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "voiture" and "voitures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\vwa.tyʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "voiture" vs "voitures" - which ranks higher?
"voiture" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #537 in our French list, against #1,644 for "voitures". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "voiture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voitures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #436,627 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "voiture" and "voitures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "voitures vs voiturier". 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 #436,627 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