à haute voix
\a o.tə vwa\
The verdict
“à haute voix” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En se faisant clairement entendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à haute voix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a o.tə vwa\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “à haute voix” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à haute voix is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a o.tə vwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for à haute voix, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is à haute voix, spelled À- -H-A-U-T-E- -V-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1En se faisant clairement entendre.
- 2En lisant.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “à haute voix”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is À- -H-A-U-T-E- -V-O-I-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a o.tə vwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.