dévoisé
\de.vwa.ze\
The verdict
“dévoisé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a perdu son voisement, assourdi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devoise · dévoisé · French
dévoisé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | dévoisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.vwa.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dévoisé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.vwa.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a perdu son voisement, assourdi.".
dévoisé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dévoisé, spelled D-É-V-O-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a perdu son voisement, assourdi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dévoisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Consonne dévoisée.
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.