voorkomen
\vɔːr.ˈko.məⁿ\
The verdict
“voorkomen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prévenir, éviter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voorkomen · voorkomen · French
voorkomen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voorkomen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔːr.ˈko.məⁿ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voorkomen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voorkomen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \vɔːr.ˈko.məⁿ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prévenir, éviter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for voorkomen, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is voorkomen, spelled V-O-O-R-K-O-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Prévenir, éviter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voorkomen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Een ongeluk voorkomen. — Éviter un accident.
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.