voir venir
The verdict
“voir venir” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se rendre compte de quelque chose et anticiper une réaction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voir venir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vwaʁ və.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voir venir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for voir venir is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwaʁ və.niʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for voir venir 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 venir, spelled V-O-I-R- -V-E-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se rendre compte de quelque chose et anticiper une réaction.
- 2Ne pas se presser, laisser les choses se développer et réagir de façon appropriée.
- 3Découvrir un dessein, et déjouer un jeu ou un tour.
- 4Avoir les moyens ou la possibilité de réagir, de résister.
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Using “voir venir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-O-I-R- -V-E-N-I-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vwaʁ və.niʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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