voyagevsvoyagentConfusable pair

Quick tell: voyage is a noun, voyagent is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“voyage” is a noun and “voyagent” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#860
“voyage” frequency rank
#21,206
“voyagent” frequency rank
22066
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature voyage voyagent
Definition Action de se déplacer par un chemin plus ou moins long pour se rendre d’une ville dans une autre, d’un pays dans un autre, d’un lieu dans un autre. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voyager.

Same sound, different letters: voyage vs voyagent

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. voyage runs 6 letters (CVVVCV) against voyagent's 8 (CVVVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
voyage
8 ch
voyagent

Same sound, different spelling - voyage / voyagent

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: voyage and voyagent carry the same recorded pronunciation, \vwa.jaʒ\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “voyage” sits inside “voyagent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22066, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

voyage is recorded at frequency rank #860, classified as anoun, pronounced \vwa.jaʒ\. voyagent is at rank #21,206, tagged as averb, pronounced \vwa.jaʒ\.

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 22066, this pair ranks #359,983 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of voyage vs voyagent

Shared letters: aegovy. Private to "voyage": -. Private to "voyagent": nt.

"voyage" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCV  ·  "voyagent" · 8 letters · shape CVVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voyageovyage · voayge · voyaeg · voyagge · voygae · voyyage · vvoyage · vyoage
  • voyagentovyagent · voaygent · voyaegnt · voyagennt · voyagentt · voyagetn · voyaggent · voyagnet

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "voyage" and "voyagent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "voyage" is a noun and "voyagent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "voyage" or "voyagent" show up more?
"voyage" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #860 in our French list, against #21,206 for "voyagent". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

"voyage" and "voyagent" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "voyage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voyagent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #359,983 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "voyage" and "voyagent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "votaient vs voyagent". 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 #359,983 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