vice-roi
\vis.ʁwa\
The verdict
“vice-roi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délégué direct de la puissance royale dans un pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vice-roi · vice-roi · French
vice-roi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | vice-roi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vis.ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vice-roi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vis.ʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vice-roi has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 vice-roi, spelled V-I-C-E---R-O-I.
Definition
- 1Délégué direct de la puissance royale dans un pays.
- 2Papillon nord-américain de nom scientifique Limenitis archippus dont les ailes sont orange avec des nervures noires et une marge noire marquée d'une ligne de points blancs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vice-roi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vice-roi des Indes.
Il amenait deux missionnaires envoyés par le vice-roi du Pérou.
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.