jeu vidéo
\ʒø vi.de.o\
The verdict
“jeu vidéo” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type de jeu sous forme de logiciel nécessitant généralement une console de jeu ou un ordinateur, joué sur un écran, et dans lequel les joueurs interagissent dans un environnement virtuel via des ac...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu vidéo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø vi.de.o\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeu vidéo” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu vidéo is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø vi.de.o\. 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: "Type de jeu sous forme de logiciel nécessitant généralement une console de jeu ou un ordinateur, joué sur un écran, et dans lequel les joueurs interagissent dans un environnement virtuel via des ac...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for jeu vidéo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is jeu vidéo, spelled J-E-U- -V-I-D-É-O.
Definition
- 1Type de jeu sous forme de logiciel nécessitant généralement une console de jeu ou un ordinateur, joué sur un écran, et dans lequel les joueurs interagissent dans un environnement virtuel via des accessoires comme une manette ou un clavier.
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 “jeu vidéo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-E-U- -V-I-D-É-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒø vi.de.o\ (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.