VossvsvoteWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Voss is a name, vote is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Voss” is a name and “vote” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,682
“Voss” frequency rank
#1,128
“vote” frequency rank
48810
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Voss vote
Definition Nom de famille. Opinion exprimée, suffrage donné dans un corps politique, dans une assemblée délibérante, dans un collège électoral, dans une compagnie.

Letter map: Voss vs vote

Shared letters muted; letters that set Voss and vote apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
Voss
4 ch
vote

Part-of-speech tell for Voss / vote

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Voss is aname and voteanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48810, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Voss is recorded at frequency rank #47,682, classified as aname. vote is at rank #1,128, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vɔt\.

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 48810, this pair ranks #175,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Voss vs vote

Shared letters: ov. Private to "Voss": s. Private to "vote": et.

"Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "vote" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Vossovss · vsos · vvoss
  • voteovte · voet · votte · vtoe · vvote

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Voss" and "vote" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Voss" is a name and "vote" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Voss" vs "vote" - which ranks higher?
"vote" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,128 in our French list, against #47,682 for "Voss". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Voss" and "vote".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Voss" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vote" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #175,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Voss" and "vote" 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 #175,864 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