à voix basse
\a vwa bas\
The verdict
“à voix basse” 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) - Avec un faible volume sonore, en parlant de s'exprimer oralement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à voix basse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a vwa bas\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “à voix basse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à voix basse is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a vwa bas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Avec un faible volume sonore, en parlant de s'exprimer oralement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for à voix basse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 voix basse, spelled À- -V-O-I-X- -B-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Avec un faible volume sonore, en parlant de s'exprimer oralement.
Antonyms
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 voix basse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is À- -V-O-I-X- -B-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a vwa bas\ (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.