voie sans issue

/\vwa sɑ̃.z‿i.sy\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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voie sans issue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Impasse, voie, rue d’où l’on ne peut sortir que par là où l’on est arrivé. Pronounced \vwa sɑ̃.z‿i.sy\.

Key facts for voie sans issue
PropertyValue
Headwordvoie sans issue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vwa sɑ̃.z‿i.sy\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

voie sans issue is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for voie sans issue is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa sɑ̃.z‿i.sy\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for voie sans issue in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 sans issue, spelled V-O-I-E- -S-A-N-S- -I-S-S-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Impasse, voie, rue d’où l’on ne peut sortir que par là où l’on est arrivé.
  2. 2
    Situation où l’on ne peut plus avancer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voie sans issue"?
"voie sans issue" is spelled V-O-I-E- -S-A-N-S- -I-S-S-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vwa sɑ̃.z‿i.sy\.
What does "voie sans issue" mean?
As a noun, "voie sans issue" means: Impasse, voie, rue d’où l’on ne peut sortir que par là où l’on est arrivé.
How do you pronounce "voie sans issue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voie sans issue" is \vwa sɑ̃.z‿i.sy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voie sans issue" come from?
"voie sans issue" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.