voter avec ses pieds
\vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voter avec ses pieds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔ.te a.vɛk se pje\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “voter avec ses pieds” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Exprimer son mécontentement en refusant de participer à un scrutin, voire en quittant un État.
- 2Voter n’importe comment ; faire des choix illogiques.
This word in other languages
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Using “voter avec ses pieds”
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- 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.
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