voyagevsvoyagesConfusable pair

Which to use

“voyage” and “voyages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#860
“voyage” frequency rank
#3,373
“voyages” frequency rank
4233
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature voyage voyages
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. Pluriel de voyage.

Same sound, different letters: voyage vs voyages

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

6 ch
voyage
7 ch
voyages

Homophone desk: voyage vs voyages

This is the hard kind. voyage and voyages are pronounced identically (\vwa.jaʒ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “voyage” sits inside “voyages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4233, 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\. voyages is at rank #3,373, tagged as anoun, 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 4233, this pair ranks #432,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of voyage vs voyages

Shared letters: aegovy. Private to "voyage": -. Private to "voyages": s.

"voyage" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCV  ·  "voyages" · 7 letters · shape CVVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voyageovyage · voayge · voyaeg · voyagge · voygae · voyyage · vvoyage · vyoage
  • voyagesovyages · voayges · voyaegs · voyagess · voyagges · voyagse · voygaes · voyyages

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "voyage" and "voyages" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\vwa.jaʒ\), 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 "voyage" or "voyages" show up more?
"voyage" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #860 in our French list, against #3,373 for "voyages". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"voyage" and "voyages" 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 "voyages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #432,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "voyage" and "voyages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "volage vs voyages". 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 #432,125 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