votrevsvoûtéeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: votre is a determiner, voûtée is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#110
“votre” frequency rank
#48,260
“voûtée” frequency rank
48370
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature votre voûtée
Definition 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. Féminin singulier de voûté.

Where the eye mixes votre and voûtée

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

5 ch
votre
6 ch
voûtée

Look-alike desk: votre vs voûtée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: votre is \vɔtʁ\ while voûtée is \vu.te\. 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 (determiner vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48370, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

votre is recorded at frequency rank #110, classified as adet, pronounced \vɔtʁ\. voûtée is at rank #48,260, tagged as anadj, pronounced \vu.te\.

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 48370, this pair ranks #179,463 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of votre vs voûtée

Shared letters: eotv. Private to "votre": r. Private to "voûtée": éû.

"votre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "voûtée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "votre" and "voûtée" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "votre" is a determiner and "voûtée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "votre" or "voûtée" show up more?
"votre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #110 in our French list, against #48,260 for "voûtée". 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 "votre" and "voûtée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "votre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voûtée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #179,463 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "votre" and "voûtée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "voûté 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 #179,463 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