vouvoie
\vu.vwa\
The verdict
“vouvoie” is uncommon French (frequency #75,346 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,346
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de vouvoyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vouvoie · vouvoie · French
vouvoie · rank #75,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,346
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH votive
Nearest frequency peer: votive (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « vouvoie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vivifiante
vivifiante
24,658 corpus weight
- vivrière
vivrière
24,657 corpus weight
- votive
votive
24,656 corpus weight
- vouvoie
vouvoie
24,655 corpus weight
- vy
vy
24,654 corpus weight
- végétations
végétations
24,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vouvoie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vouvoie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vu.vwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vouvoie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vouvoie is uncommon French at frequency #75,346 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vu.vwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
vouvoie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vouvoie, spelled V-O-U-V-O-I-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de vouvoyer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de vouvoyer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de vouvoyer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de vouvoyer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de vouvoyer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).