volante
noun
volante is a noun meaning “A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba. The body is in front of the axle; the driver rides on the horse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-A-N-T-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of volante is volantes.
What does volante mean?
noun
- 1
A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba. The body is in front of the axle; the driver rides on the horse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce volante?
Volante has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of volante
- volantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is volante?
Volante appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does volante come from?
Borrowed from Spanish volante (literally “flying”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).