voiture
voi·ture/vwɑˈtjʊə(ɹ)/noun
voiture is a noun meaning “A carriage; a vehicle, now chiefly in French contexts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-I-T-U-R-E and has 2 syllables (voi·ture), and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of voiture is voitures.
What does voiture mean?
noun
- 1
A carriage; a vehicle, now chiefly in French contexts.
As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, "Kiki," wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce voiture?
- /vwɑˈtjʊə(ɹ)/
Voiture has 2 syllables, split voi·ture in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-voiture.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of voiture
- voitures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is voiture?
Voiture appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does voiture come from?
Borrowed from French voiture, from Latin vectūra. Doublet of vecture and vettura.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).