sans voix
\sɑ̃ vwa\
The verdict
“sans voix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muet de stupéfaction ou d’émotion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sans-voix · sans voix · French
sans voix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sans voix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ vwa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sans voix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sans voix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɑ̃ vwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Muet de stupéfaction ou d’émotion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sans voix in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sans voix, spelled S-A-N-S- -V-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1Muet de stupéfaction ou d’émotion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sans voix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’insolite mais "sérieuse" demande d’Emile Ratelband, inédite dans l’histoire judiciaire néerlandaise, a laissé sans voix les magistrats d’un tribunal du sud-est des Pays-Bas. L’homme veut que sa date de naissance soit modifiée dans son passeport, passant du 11 mars 1949 au 11 mars 1969.
Au moment de dire « oui », le marié est resté un moment sans voix.
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.