VossvsvouésConfusable pair

Quick tell: Voss is a name, voués is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#47,682
“Voss” frequency rank
#32,638
“voués” frequency rank
80320
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Voss voués
Definition Nom de famille. Masculin pluriel de voué.

Letter map: Voss vs voués

Shared letters muted; letters that set Voss and voués apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Voss runs 4 letters (CVCC) against voués's 5 (CVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Voss
5 ch
voués

Part-of-speech tell for Voss / voués

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Voss is aname and vouésanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80320, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Voss is recorded at frequency rank #47,682, classified as aname. voués is at rank #32,638, tagged as anadj, pronounced \vwe\.

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 80320, this pair ranks #21,241 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Voss vs voués

Shared letters: osv. Private to "Voss": -. Private to "voués": ué.

"Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "voués" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Voss ← ovss · vsos · vvoss

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Voss" and "voués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Voss" is a name and "voués" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Voss" or "voués"?
"voués" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,638 in our French list, against #47,682 for "Voss". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "Voss" vs "voués" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Voss" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,241 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Voss" and "voués" 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 #21,241 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