voter avec ses pieds

\vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\

/\vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\/ verb

The verdict

“voter avec ses pieds” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - 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) - Exprimer son mécontentement en refusant de participer à un scrutin, voire en quittant un État.

Key facts for voter avec ses pieds
PropertyValue
Headwordvoter avec ses pieds
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “voter avec ses pieds” sits in French frequency

voter avec ses pieds falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for voter avec ses pieds is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for voter avec ses pieds 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 voter avec ses pieds, spelled V-O-T-E-R- -A-V-E-C- -S-E-S- -P-I-E-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Exprimer son mécontentement en refusant de participer à un scrutin, voire en quittant un État.
  2. 2
    Voter n’importe comment ; faire des choix illogiques.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voter avec ses pieds"?
"voter avec ses pieds" is spelled V-O-T-E-R- -A-V-E-C- -S-E-S- -P-I-E-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\.
What does "voter avec ses pieds" mean?
As a verb, "voter avec ses pieds" means: Exprimer son mécontentement en refusant de participer à un scrutin, voire en quittant un État.
How do you pronounce "voter avec ses pieds"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voter avec ses pieds" is \vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “voter avec ses pieds”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is V-O-T-E-R- -A-V-E-C- -S-E-S- -P-I-E-D-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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