Voie lactée
\vwa lak.te\
The verdict
“Voie lactée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Galaxie où se situe la Terre et son système solaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Voie lactée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vwa lak.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Voie lactée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Voie lactée is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa lak.te\. 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: "Galaxie où se situe la Terre et son système solaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Voie lactée 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 lactée, spelled V-O-I-E- -L-A-C-T-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Galaxie où se situe la Terre et son système solaire.
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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.
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- The one correct French spelling is V-O-I-E- -L-A-C-T-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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