Which to use
“voyant” and “voyants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,374
- “voyant” frequency rank
- #27,293
- “voyants” frequency rank
- 30667
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | voyant | voyants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Que l’on voit ; qui attire la vue ; éclatant ; manifeste. | Masculin pluriel de voyant. |
Same sound, different letters: voyant vs voyants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. voyant runs 6 letters (CVVVCC) against voyants's 7 (CVVVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - voyant and voyants
This is the hard kind. voyant and voyants are pronounced identically (\vwa.jɑ̃\) 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) - “voyant” sits inside “voyants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30667, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
voyant is recorded at frequency rank #3,374, classified as anadj, pronounced \vwa.jɑ̃\. voyants is at rank #27,293, tagged as anadj, pronounced \vwa.jɑ̃\.
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 30667, this pair ranks #308,749 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of voyant vs voyants
Shared letters: anotvy. Private to "voyant": -. Private to "voyants": s.
"voyant" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCC · "voyants" · 7 letters · shape CVVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "voyant" and "voyants" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "voyant" or "voyants"?
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 "voyant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "voyants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #308,749 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "voyant" and "voyants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "volantes vs voyants". 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 #308,749 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.