pays en voie de développement
\pe.i ɑ̃ vwa də de.və.lɔp.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“pays en voie de développement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pays du monde économiquement dans les moins développés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pays en voie de développement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.i ɑ̃ vwa də de.və.lɔp.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pays en voie de développement” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pays en voie de développement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.i ɑ̃ vwa də de.və.lɔp.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays du monde économiquement dans les moins développés.".
pays en voie de développement has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 pays en voie de développement, spelled P-A-Y-S- -E-N- -V-O-I-E- -D-E- -D-É-V-E-L-O-P-P-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Pays du monde économiquement dans les moins développés.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-Y-S- -E-N- -V-O-I-E- -D-E- -D-É-V-E-L-O-P-P-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.