Which to use
“voudrais” and “voudrait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,456
- “voudrais” frequency rank
- #3,723
- “voudrait” frequency rank
- 6179
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | voudrais | voudrait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de vouloir. | Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de vouloir. |
Same sound, different letters: voudrais vs voudrait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - voudrais and voudrait
This is the hard kind. voudrais and voudrait are pronounced identically (\vu.dʁɛ\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - s in “voudrais” becomes t in “voudrait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6179, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
voudrais is recorded at frequency rank #2,456, classified as averb, pronounced \vu.dʁɛ\. voudrait is at rank #3,723, tagged as averb, pronounced \vu.dʁɛ\.
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 6179, this pair ranks #426,951 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of voudrais vs voudrait
Shared letters: adioruv. Private to "voudrais": s. Private to "voudrait": t.
"voudrais" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "voudrait" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "voudrais" and "voudrait" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "voudrais" vs "voudrait" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "voudrais" / "voudrait". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "voudrais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "voudrait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #426,951 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "voudrais" and "voudrait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vendrait vs voudrait". 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 #426,951 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.