violence sexuelle
\vjɔ.lɑ̃s sɛk.sɥɛl\
The verdict
“violence sexuelle” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Forme de violence hautement traumatogène qui consiste à imposer, obtenir par emprise ou à menacer une personne d’un acte sexuel non désiré de divers degrés de gravité, ayant pour objectif ou conséq...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violence sexuelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɑ̃s sɛk.sɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “violence sexuelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for violence sexuelle is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjɔ.lɑ̃s sɛk.sɥɛl\. 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: "Forme de violence hautement traumatogène qui consiste à imposer, obtenir par emprise ou à menacer une personne d’un acte sexuel non désiré de divers degrés de gravité, ayant pour objectif ou conséq...".
No misspelling variants are generated for violence sexuelle 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 violence sexuelle, spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E- -S-E-X-U-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme de violence hautement traumatogène qui consiste à imposer, obtenir par emprise ou à menacer une personne d’un acte sexuel non désiré de divers degrés de gravité, ayant pour objectif ou conséquence de l’envahir, de la dominer, de l’humilier et/ou de la trafiquer. Cette forme de violence, généralement exercée par des hommes sur des femmes ou des enfants de leur connaissance, notamment dans le cadre amoureux ou familial, s’accompagne le plus souvent d’autres violences, physiques, verbales, économiques ou psychologiques.
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- The one correct French spelling is V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E- -S-E-X-U-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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