votevsvotreWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#1,128
“vote” frequency rank
#110
“votre” frequency rank
1238
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vote votre
Definition Opinion exprimée, suffrage donné dans un corps politique, dans une assemblée délibérante, dans un collège électoral, dans une compagnie. Deuxième personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui est à vous. Plusieurs possesseurs et un seul objet ou un possesseur, à qui on s'adresse poliment, et un seul objet.

Where the eye mixes vote and votre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

4 ch
vote
5 ch
votre

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: vote is \vɔt\ while votre is \vɔtʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs determiner), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1238, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vote is recorded at frequency rank #1,128, classified as anoun, pronounced \vɔt\. votre is at rank #110, tagged as adet, pronounced \vɔtʁ\.

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 1238, this pair ranks #438,372 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vote vs votre

Shared letters: eotv. Private to "vote": -. Private to "votre": r.

"vote" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "votre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voteovte · voet · votte · vtoe · vvote
  • votreovtre · vorte · votrre · vottre · vtore · vvotre

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vote" and "votre" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vote" is a noun and "votre" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "vote" or "votre"?
"votre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #110 in our French list, against #1,128 for "vote". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list