voluta
noun
voluta is a noun meaning “Any of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-U-T-A, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of voluta is volutas or volutae.
What does voluta mean?
noun
- 1
Any of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of voluta
- volutas plural
- volutae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is voluta?
Voluta appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 voluta come from?
Borrowed from Latin volūta (“a spiral scroll”). See volute.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).