ventriloquie
\vɑ̃.tʁi.lɔ.ki\
The verdict
“ventriloquie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art du ventriloque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ventriloquie · ventriloquie · French
ventriloquie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | ventriloquie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃.tʁi.lɔ.ki\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ventriloquie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ventriloquie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɑ̃.tʁi.lɔ.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Art du ventriloque.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ventriloquie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is ventriloquie, spelled V-E-N-T-R-I-L-O-Q-U-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art du ventriloque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ventriloquie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Forcé de faire la plénitude avec le vide, il appela à son secours une ventriloquie prodigieuse.
Il se trouve que la ventriloquie, la glossolalie, le fait de parler les langues des animaux, le fait de simplement parler « en langues », ne caractérisent qu’un membre du couple chamanique. Georges Charachidzé rapporte que les Géorgiens du Caucase nomment celui qui parle dans la transe le « linguiste », tandis qu’ils appellent celui dont la possession est…
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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.