ville ouverte
The verdict
“ville ouverte” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ville qui se rend sans combattre afin d’éviter la ruine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ville ouverte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vil u.vɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ville ouverte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ville ouverte is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vil u.vɛʁt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ville qui se rend sans combattre afin d’éviter la ruine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ville ouverte 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 ville ouverte, spelled V-I-L-L-E- -O-U-V-E-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville qui se rend sans combattre afin d’éviter la ruine.
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Using “ville ouverte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-I-L-L-E- -O-U-V-E-R-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vil u.vɛʁt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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