voiture de fonction
\vwa.tyʁ də fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“voiture de fonction” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Véhicule mis à disposition d’un salarié ou d’un fonctionnaire dans le cadre de sa fonction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voiture de fonction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vwa.tyʁ də fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voiture de fonction” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for voiture de fonction is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa.tyʁ də fɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Véhicule mis à disposition d’un salarié ou d’un fonctionnaire dans le cadre de sa fonction.".
No misspelling variants are generated for voiture de fonction 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 voiture de fonction, spelled V-O-I-T-U-R-E- -D-E- -F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Véhicule mis à disposition d’un salarié ou d’un fonctionnaire dans le cadre de sa fonction.
Synonyms
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-O-I-T-U-R-E- -D-E- -F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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