porte-voix
\pɔʁ.tvwa\
The verdict
“porte-voix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tuyau de métal, en forme de trompette droite et largement évasée, qui sert à porter la voix au loin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-voix · porte-voix · French
porte-voix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | porte-voix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tvwa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porte-voix” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
porte-voix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tvwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for porte-voix, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is porte-voix, spelled P-O-R-T-E---V-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1Tuyau de métal, en forme de trompette droite et largement évasée, qui sert à porter la voix au loin.
- 2Personne qui n’exprime que des idées qui lui sont dictées par une autre personne ou un groupe.
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