vole
/vəʊl/
"vole" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vole” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,158
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vole · vole · English
vole · rank #45,158 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,158
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Vladivostok
Nearest frequency peer: Vladivostok (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “vole”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- utterances
utterances
54,848 corpus weight
- Virat
Virat
54,846 corpus weight
- Vit
Vit
54,845 corpus weight
- Vladivostok
Vladivostok
54,844 corpus weight
- vole
vole
54,843 corpus weight
- wallaby
wallaby
54,839 corpus weight
What this shows “vole” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vole |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vəʊl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “vole”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around vole (IPA /vəʊl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,158 among 969 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for vole, with forms such as "ovle", "vloe", and "voel". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vow", "vox", "Vos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to… The correct English form is vole, spelled V-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.
Etymology
Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovle
- vloe
- voel
- volle
- vvole
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vole - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).