ouvrir la voie
\u.vʁiʁ la vwa\
The verdict
“ouvrir la voie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être le premier, créer un précédent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouvrir-la-voie · ouvrir la voie · French
ouvrir la voie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | ouvrir la voie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁiʁ la vwa\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouvrir la voie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouvrir la voie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \u.vʁiʁ la vwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ouvrir la voie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ouvrir la voie, spelled O-U-V-R-I-R- -L-A- -V-O-I-E.
Definition
- 1Être le premier, créer un précédent.
- 2Donner accès ; laisser le champ libre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouvrir la voie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si d’autres l’ont fait, pourquoi pas moi ? Avant c’était que des vidéos, mais ils ont ouvert la voie.
Nous menons tous (les trois) des recherches prometteuses qui ouvriront la voie à la prochaine génération.
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.