voiture piégée
\vwa.tyʁ pje.ʒe\
The verdict
“voiture piégée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Voiture contenant une bombe et utilisée à des fins terroristes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voiture piégée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vwa.tyʁ pje.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voiture piégée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
voiture piégée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vwa.tyʁ pje.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voiture contenant une bombe et utilisée à des fins terroristes.".
voiture piégée has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is voiture piégée, spelled V-O-I-T-U-R-E- -P-I-É-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Voiture contenant une bombe et utilisée à des fins terroristes.
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.
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Using “voiture piégée”
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- -P-I-É-G-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.