aller voir

/\a.le vwaʁ\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

aller voir is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller quelque part pour se rendre compte de quelque chose. Pronounced \a.le vwaʁ\.

Key facts for aller voir
PropertyValue
Headwordaller voir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.le vwaʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

aller voir is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for aller voir is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.le vwaʁ\. 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.

No misspelling variants are generated for aller voir in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aller voir, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aller quelque part pour se rendre compte de quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Aller chez quelqu’un pour lui faire visite, pour lui rendre ses devoirs, pour l’entretenir.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aller voir"?
"aller voir" is spelled A-L-L-E-R- -V-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.le vwaʁ\.
What does "aller voir" mean?
As a verb, "aller voir" means: Aller quelque part pour se rendre compte de quelque chose.
How do you pronounce "aller voir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aller voir" is \a.le vwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aller voir" come from?
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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.