Which to use
“voûté” and “voûtée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,952
- “voûté” frequency rank
- #48,260
- “voûtée” frequency rank
- 94212
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | voûté | voûtée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui présente une voûte, qui est recourbé. | Féminin singulier de voûté. |
Same sound, different letters: voûté vs voûtée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. voûté runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against voûtée's 6 (CVVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: voûté vs voûtée
This is the hard kind. voûté and voûtée are pronounced identically (\vu.te\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “voûté” sits inside “voûtée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94212, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
voûté is recorded at frequency rank #45,952, classified as anadj, pronounced \vu.te\. 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 94212, this pair ranks #1,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of voûté vs voûtée
Shared letters: otvéû. Private to "voûté": -. Private to "voûtée": e.
"voûté" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "voûtée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "voûté" and "voûtée" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "voûté" or "voûtée" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "voûté" 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 #1,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "voûté" and "voûtée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vouées vs voûtée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #1,782 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.