voix
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#499
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
voix is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de sons produits par les cordes vocales. Pronounced \vwa\. It ranks #499 in French word frequency. Often confused with vos and vol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for voix is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #499 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for voix, with forms such as "ovix", "viox", and "voixx". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vos", "vol", "von", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 voix, spelled V-O-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de sons produits par les cordes vocales.
- 2Son articulé de la parole, voyelle.
- 3Son modulé dans le chant.
- 4Parties instrumentales.
- 5Son de certains instruments de musique ou certains bruits.
- 6Se dit aussi en parlant de certains animaux.
- 7Son de certaines choses.
- 8Ce qui nous parle ou qui nous inspire. Mouvement intérieur qui nous porte à faire quelque chose ou qui nous en détourne.
- 9Expression d’une opinion.
- 10Expression d’un vote ; suffrage.
- 11Mode d’expression d’une action par rapport au sujet.
- 12Échanges par téléphone.
- 13Appel, injonction.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovix,viox,voixx,voxi,vvoix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for voix
Misspelling Variants of "voix"
Frequency rank: #499 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our French index: