voix passive
The verdict
“voix passive” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Voix grammaticale où celui qui subit l’action est le sujet grammatical tandis que le sujet acteur devient le complément d’agent du verbe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voix passive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vwa pa.siv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voix passive” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for voix passive is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa pa.siv\. 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: "Voix grammaticale où celui qui subit l’action est le sujet grammatical tandis que le sujet acteur devient le complément d’agent du verbe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for voix passive 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 voix passive, spelled V-O-I-X- -P-A-S-S-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Voix grammaticale où celui qui subit l’action est le sujet grammatical tandis que le sujet acteur devient le complément d’agent du verbe.
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Using “voix passive”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-O-I-X- -P-A-S-S-I-V-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vwa pa.siv\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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