boîte de vitesses
\bwat də vi.tɛs\
The verdict
“boîte de vitesses” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans un véhicule à moteur, système d'engrenages situé entre le moteur et les roues, qui permet au conducteur du véhicule, ou au véhicule lui-même, de régler le rapport de vitesse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boîte de vitesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwat də vi.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boîte de vitesses” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
boîte de vitesses is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwat də vi.tɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans un véhicule à moteur, système d'engrenages situé entre le moteur et les roues, qui permet au conducteur du véhicule, ou au véhicule lui-même, de régler le rapport de vitesse.".
boîte de vitesses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boîte de vitesses, spelled B-O-Î-T-E- -D-E- -V-I-T-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Dans un véhicule à moteur, système d'engrenages situé entre le moteur et les roues, qui permet au conducteur du véhicule, ou au véhicule lui-même, de régler le rapport de vitesse.
This word in other languages
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 “boîte de vitesses”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-Î-T-E- -D-E- -V-I-T-E-S-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bwat də vi.tɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.