Which to use
“vouée” and “voués” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,502
- “vouée” frequency rank
- #32,638
- “voués” frequency rank
- 54140
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | vouée | voués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de voué. | Masculin pluriel de voué. |
Same sound, different letters: vouée vs voués
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. vouée (CVVVV) and voués (CVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - vouée and voués
This is the hard kind. vouée and voués are pronounced identically (\vwe\) and both work as anadjective. 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 - e in “vouée” becomes s in “voués”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54140, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
vouée is recorded at frequency rank #21,502, classified as anadj, pronounced \vwe\. 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 54140, this pair ranks #135,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of vouée vs voués
Shared letters: ouvé. Private to "vouée": e. Private to "voués": s.
"vouée" · 5 letters · shape CVVVV · "voués" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "vouée" and "voués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "vouée" or "voués" show up more?
Useful next steps
"vouée" and "voués" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "vouée" 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 #135,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "vouée" and "voués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "voués vs voûtée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #135,995 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.