voyelle fermée

/\vwa.jɛl.fɛʁ.me\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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voyelle fermée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voyelle caractérisée par une position de la langue aussi proche que possible du palais, comme [i], sans resserrement excessif, qui entraînerait l’émission d’une consonne. Pronounced \vwa.jɛl.fɛʁ.me\.

Key facts for voyelle fermée
PropertyValue
Headwordvoyelle fermée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vwa.jɛl.fɛʁ.me\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

voyelle fermée is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for voyelle fermée is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa.jɛl.fɛʁ.me\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Voyelle caractérisée par une position de la langue aussi proche que possible du palais, comme [i], sans resserrement excessif, qui entraînerait l’émission d’une consonne.".

No misspelling variants are generated for voyelle fermée 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 voyelle fermée, spelled V-O-Y-E-L-L-E- -F-E-R-M-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Voyelle caractérisée par une position de la langue aussi proche que possible du palais, comme [i], sans resserrement excessif, qui entraînerait l’émission d’une consonne.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voyelle fermée"?
"voyelle fermée" is spelled V-O-Y-E-L-L-E- -F-E-R-M-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vwa.jɛl.fɛʁ.me\.
What does "voyelle fermée" mean?
As a noun, "voyelle fermée" means: Voyelle caractérisée par une position de la langue aussi proche que possible du palais, comme [i], sans resserrement excessif, qui entraînerait l’émission d’une consonne.
How do you pronounce "voyelle fermée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voyelle fermée" is \vwa.jɛl.fɛʁ.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voyelle fermée" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.