se voiler la face
\sə vwa.le la fas\
The verdict
“se voiler la face” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Se couvrir le visage pour ne pas voir un spectacle qu’on réprouve.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se voiler la face |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə vwa.le la fas\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se voiler la face” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se voiler la face is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə vwa.le la fas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for se voiler la face in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is se voiler la face, spelled S-E- -V-O-I-L-E-R- -L-A- -F-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se couvrir le visage pour ne pas voir un spectacle qu’on réprouve.
- 2Refuser d’admettre la réalité parce qu'elle ne nous plaît pas.
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 “se voiler la face”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -V-O-I-L-E-R- -L-A- -F-A-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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