voisement
French, noun/vwaz.mɑ̃/
voisement is spelled V-O-I-S-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voisement is a French feminine noun meaning “voicing, sonorization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de voiser, sonorisation d'une prononciation”.
What does voisement mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevoicing, sonorization
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de voiser, sonorisation d'une prononciation. 2. Remplacement d'une consonne sourde, occlusive ou fricative par son pendant sonore.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of voisement
- voisements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voisement?
- /vwaz.mɑ̃/
- \vwaz.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to voisement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is voisement in French?
voisement appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).