vouvoiement
\vu.vwa.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“vouvoiement” is uncommon French (frequency #76,225 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,225
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de s’adresser à quelqu’un en marquant du respect, en utilisant le pronom vous au lieu de tu pour le tutoiement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vouvoiement · vouvoiement · French
vouvoiement · rank #76,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,225
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH volcano
Nearest frequency peer: volcano (-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 « vouvoiement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vocalique
vocalique
23,778 corpus weight
- volcano
volcano
23,777 corpus weight
- vouvoiement
vouvoiement
23,776 corpus weight
- voyagistes
voyagistes
23,775 corpus weight
- védique
védique
23,774 corpus weight
- véganes
véganes
23,773 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vouvoiement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vouvoiement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vu.vwa.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vouvoiement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vouvoiement is uncommon French at frequency #76,225 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vu.vwa.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manière de s’adresser à quelqu’un en marquant du respect, en utilisant le pronom vous au lieu de tu pour le tutoiement.".
vouvoiement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vouvoiement, spelled V-O-U-V-O-I-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Manière de s’adresser à quelqu’un en marquant du respect, en utilisant le pronom vous au lieu de tu pour le tutoiement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vouvoiement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le patois, comme nous y avons déjà fait allusion dans la morphologie, ne semble pas connaître le vouvoiement.
On notera cependant que si les gens qui s’abordent dans les concerts de métal se tutoient spontanément, dans d’autres types de concert rock, le vouvoiement est majoritaire entre personnes inconnues.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).