voye
\vɔj\
The verdict
“voye” is uncommon French (frequency #97,546 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,546
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit, dans quelques endroits, de la bouée qui sert à retrouver les filets tendus par fond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voye · voye · French
voye · rank #97,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,546
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH volières
Nearest frequency peer: volières (-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 « voye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- veules
veules
2,458 corpus weight
- volières
volières
2,456 corpus weight
- voye
voye
2,455 corpus weight
- VSL
VSL
2,454 corpus weight
- végétalisme
végétalisme
2,453 corpus weight
- vînt
vînt
2,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « voye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔj\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voye is uncommon French at frequency #97,546 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit, dans quelques endroits, de la bouée qui sert à retrouver les filets tendus par fond.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for voye, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is voye, spelled V-O-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Se dit, dans quelques endroits, de la bouée qui sert à retrouver les filets tendus par fond.
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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