votéesvsvotreWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#25,165
“votées” frequency rank
#110
“votre” frequency rank
25275
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature votées votre
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de voter. 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 votées and votre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. votées runs 6 letters (CVCVVC) against votre's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
votées
5 ch
votre

Look-alike desk: votées vs votre

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: votées is \vɔ.te\ 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 (verb vs determiner), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25275, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

votées is recorded at frequency rank #25,165, classified as averb, pronounced \vɔ.te\. 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 25275, this pair ranks #341,801 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of votées vs votre

Shared letters: eotv. Private to "votées": sé. Private to "votre": r.

"votées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC  ·  "votre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • votre ← ovtre · vorte · votrre · vottre · vtore · vvotre

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "votées" for "votre" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "votées" is a verb and "votre" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "votées" or "votre"?
"votre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #110 in our French list, against #25,165 for "votées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "votées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "votre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #341,801 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "votées" and "votre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "votées 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 #341,801 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