vouéevsvouésConfusable pair

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.

5 ch
vouée
5 ch
voués

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\vwe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "vouée" or "voués" show up more?
"vouée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,502 in our French list, against #32,638 for "voués". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list