voyer
French, noun/vwa.je/
voyer is spelled V-O-Y-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voyer is a French masculine noun meaning “a civil servant whose work is connected to roads, waterways, or railways” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fonctionnaire qui est chargé des questions de voirie”.
What does voyer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea civil servant whose work is connected to roads, waterways, or railways
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à la voirie.
noun: 1. Fonctionnaire qui est chargé des questions de voirie.
verb: 1. Faire couler ou écouler.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of voyer
- voyers plural
- voyère singular feminine
- voyères plural feminine
- avoir voyé infinitive past
- en voyant gerund present
- en ayant voyé gerund past
- voyant participle present
- voyé participle past
- je voie indicative present
- tu voies indicative present
- il/elle/on voie indicative present
- nous voyons indicative present
- vous voyez indicative present
- ils/elles voient indicative present
- j’ai voyé indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as voyé indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a voyé indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons voyé indicative past multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voyer?
- /vwa.je/
- \vwa.je\
- \vɔ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is voyer in French?
voyer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).