voici
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#642
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
voici is aFrenchverb. It means: Indique la proximité, par opposition à voilà qui sert à désigner une personne ou une chose plus éloignée. Pronounced \vwa.si\. It ranks #642 in French word frequency. Often confused with voir and vois.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voici |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vwa.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for voici is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #642 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for voici, with forms such as "ovici", "vioci", and "vocii". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "voir", "vois", "voit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 voici, spelled V-O-I-C-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Indique la proximité, par opposition à voilà qui sert à désigner une personne ou une chose plus éloignée.
- 2S’emploie pour exprimer un état actuel ou une action qui a lieu dans le moment même.
- 3S’emploie lorsqu’on va immédiatement énoncer, dire, expliquer ou détailler quelque chose, par opposition à voilà qui désigne ce qu’on vient de dire.
- 4Il s’employait encore devant un infinitif, surtout devant venir. Cette forme s’est conservée dans quelques phrases.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovici,vioci,vocii,voicci,voiic,vvoici
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for voici
Misspelling Variants of "voici"
Frequency rank: #642 in French
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