Which to use
“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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "voiture" and "voitures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "voiture" vs "voitures" - which ranks higher?
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.