voleur comme une pie
\vɔ.lœʁ kɔ.m‿yn pi\
The verdict
“voleur comme une pie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Voleur par instinct.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voleur comme une pie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɔ.lœʁ kɔ.m‿yn pi\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voleur comme une pie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for voleur comme une pie is 20 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.lœʁ kɔ.m‿yn pi\. 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: "Voleur par instinct.".
No misspelling variants are generated for voleur comme une pie 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 voleur comme une pie, spelled V-O-L-E-U-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -P-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Voleur par instinct.
Synonyms
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 “voleur comme une pie”
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- The one correct French spelling is V-O-L-E-U-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -P-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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