voir dire
\ˈvwɑɹ ˌdɪɹ\
The verdict
“voir dire” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sélection des jurés par un questionnaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voir dire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈvwɑɹ ˌdɪɹ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voir dire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for voir dire is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈvwɑɹ ˌdɪɹ\. 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 voir dire 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 voir dire, spelled V-O-I-R- -D-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sélection des jurés par un questionnaire.
- 2Sous-procès durant un procès pour déterminer la recevabilité de la preuve ou un autre enjeu juridique.
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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Using “voir dire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-O-I-R- -D-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈvwɑɹ ˌdɪɹ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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