votevsvouésTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#1,128
“vote” frequency rank
#32,638
“voués” frequency rank
33766
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vote voués
Definition Opinion exprimée, suffrage donné dans un corps politique, dans une assemblée délibérante, dans un collège électoral, dans une compagnie. Masculin pluriel de voué.

Where the eye mixes vote and voués

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
vote
5 ch
voués

Visual trap between vote and voués

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: vote is \vɔt\ while voués is \vwe\. 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 adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33766, 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\. 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 33766, this pair ranks #288,403 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vote vs voués

Shared letters: ov. Private to "vote": et. Private to "voués": sué.

"vote" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "voués" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voteovte · voet · votte · vtoe · vvote

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vote" and "voués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vote" is a noun and "voués" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "vote" or "voués" show up more?
"vote" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,128 in our French list, against #32,638 for "voués". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "vote" and "voués" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vote" 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 #288,403 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vote" and "voués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "voués vs voûtée". 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 #288,403 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