voisé
\vwa.ze\
The verdict
“voisé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un son dont la prononciation implique la vibration des cordes vocales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voise · voisé · French
voisé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vwa.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voisé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voisé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vwa.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit d’un son dont la prononciation implique la vibration des cordes vocales.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for voisé, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is voisé, spelled V-O-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un son dont la prononciation implique la vibration des cordes vocales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
/z/ et /ʒ/ sont des consonnes voisées, au contraire de leurs pendants sourds respectifs, /s/ et /ʃ/.
Elle passe des soirées entières sur les consonnes rétroflexes, doubles ou voisées, s’entraînant à replier sa langue sur son palais pour la faire claquer, comme les gens d’ici.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.