voisé

\vwa.ze\

/\vwa.ze\/ adj

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.

Key facts for voisé
PropertyValue
Headwordvoisé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\vwa.ze\
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « voisé » en français

voiséreste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Se dit d’un son dont la prononciation implique la vibration des cordes vocales.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how voisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. /z/ et /ʒ/ sont des consonnes voisées, au contraire de leurs pendants sourds respectifs, /s/ et /ʃ/.
  2. 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.

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voisé"?
"voisé" is spelled V-O-I-S-É. The IPA pronunciation is \vwa.ze\.
What does "voisé" mean?
As an adjective, "voisé" means: Se dit d’un son dont la prononciation implique la vibration des cordes vocales.
How do you pronounce "voisé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voisé" is \vwa.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voisé" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list