voûte palatine
\vut pa.la.tin\
The verdict
“voûte palatine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie dure à base osseuse du palais qui limite le haut de la cavité de la bouche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voute-palatine · voûte palatine · French
voûte palatine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | voûte palatine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vut pa.la.tin\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voûte palatine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voûte palatine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vut pa.la.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie dure à base osseuse du palais qui limite le haut de la cavité de la bouche.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for voûte palatine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 voûte palatine, spelled V-O-Û-T-E- -P-A-L-A-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Partie dure à base osseuse du palais qui limite le haut de la cavité de la bouche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voûte palatine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le projectile, de calibre 6 mm, traversant la voûte palatine, s’est logé dans le cerveau. La mort a été instantanée. »
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.