homme vers femme

/\ɔm vɛʁ fam\/ adj

The verdict

“homme vers femme” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qui va du sexe masculin vers le sexe féminin.

Key facts for homme vers femme
PropertyValue
Headwordhomme vers femme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɔm vɛʁ fam\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “homme vers femme” sits in French frequency

homme vers femme falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for homme vers femme is 16 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔm vɛʁ fam\. 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: "Qui va du sexe masculin vers le sexe féminin.".

No misspelling variants are generated for homme vers femme 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 homme vers femme, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -V-E-R-S- -F-E-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui va du sexe masculin vers le sexe féminin.

Synonyms

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "homme vers femme"?
"homme vers femme" is spelled H-O-M-M-E- -V-E-R-S- -F-E-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔm vɛʁ fam\.
What does "homme vers femme" mean?
As an adjective, "homme vers femme" means: Qui va du sexe masculin vers le sexe féminin.
How do you pronounce "homme vers femme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "homme vers femme" is \ɔm vɛʁ fam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “homme vers femme”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is H-O-M-M-E- -V-E-R-S- -F-E-M-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ɔm vɛʁ fam\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

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