Which to use
“vos” is a determiner and “Voss” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #207
- “vos” frequency rank
- #47,682
- “Voss” frequency rank
- 47889
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | vos | Voss |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui sont à vous, qui vous appartiennent. Deuxième personne du pluriel. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets, ou un seul possesseur (forme de politesse) et plusieurs objets. | Nom de famille. |
Letter map: vos vs Voss
Shared letters muted; letters that set vos and Voss apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.
Part-of-speech tell for vos / Voss
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vos is adeterminer and Vossaname. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “vos” sits inside “Voss”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47889, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
vos is recorded at frequency rank #207, classified as adet, pronounced \vo\. Voss is at rank #47,682, tagged as aname.
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 47889, this pair ranks #183,346 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of vos vs Voss
Shared letters: osv. Private to "vos": -. Private to "Voss": -.
"vos" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- Voss ← ovss · vsos · vvoss
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "vos" and "Voss" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "vos" or "Voss" show up more?
What to do next
You've compared "vos" and "Voss". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "vos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "Voss" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #183,346 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "vos" and "Voss" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Voss vs voy". 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 #183,346 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.