à haute voix
\a o.tə vwa\
The verdict
“à haute voix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En se faisant clairement entendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-haute-voix · à haute voix · French
à haute voix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
à haute voix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a o.tə vwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how à haute voix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La voix se taisait, et je m’apercevais au remuement de ses lèvres qu’elle continuait intérieurement l’air commencé à haute voix, […].
[…], et chaque fois que, dans un lieu public, quelqu’un déclarait à haute voix, d’un ton assuré et confiant : « C’est forcé qu’ils y arrivent ! » il y avait dix chances contre une qu’il s’agît de vol aérien.
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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.