voie ferrée
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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voie ferrée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Double file de rails, reliés par des traverses, et sur laquelle circulent des véhicules, notamment des trains. Pronounced \vwa fɛʁe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voie ferrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vwa fɛʁe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for voie ferrée is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa fɛʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for voie ferrée 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 voie ferrée, spelled V-O-I-E- -F-E-R-R-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Double file de rails, reliés par des traverses, et sur laquelle circulent des véhicules, notamment des trains.
- 2Une ligne de chemin de fer, surtout lorsque cette ligne ne comporte qu’une voie.
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