Which to use
“volonté” and “voyante” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,193
- “volonté” frequency rank
- #25,167
- “voyante” frequency rank
- 26360
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | volonté | voyante |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Faculté de vouloir, de se déterminer à quelque chose ; en particulier, cette faculté même en tant qu’elle est plus ou moins agissante. | Celle qui peut voir, n’est pas aveugle. |
Where the eye mixes volonté and voyante
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. volonté (CVCVCCV) and voyante (CVVVCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: volonté vs voyante
A purely visual mix-up. volonté (\vɔ.lɔ̃.te\) and voyante (\vwa.jɑ̃t\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26360, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
volonté is recorded at frequency rank #1,193, classified as anoun, pronounced \vɔ.lɔ̃.te\. voyante is at rank #25,167, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vwa.jɑ̃t\.
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 26360, this pair ranks #335,504 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of volonté vs voyante
Shared letters: notv. Private to "volonté": lé. Private to "voyante": aey.
"volonté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "voyante" · 7 letters · shape CVVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- voyante ← ovyante · voaynte · voyanet · voyannte · voyantte · voyatne · voynate · voyyante
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "volonté" for "voyante" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "volonté" or "voyante" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "volonté" and "voyante" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "volonté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "voyante" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #335,504 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "volonté" and "voyante" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vacante vs voyante". 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 #335,504 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.