voila
[vwa.la]
The verdict
“voila” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,478 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,478
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Veló. Tercera persona singular del pasado simple de indicativo de voiler.
Corpus desk
Index ES-voila · voila · Spanish
voila · rank #90,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,478
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH voluminosas
Nearest frequency peer: voluminosas (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “voila”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- violentada
violentada
9,526 corpus weight
- viver
viver
9,525 corpus weight
- voila
voila
9,523 corpus weight
- voluminosas
voluminosas
9,522 corpus weight
- votase
votase
9,521 corpus weight
- Wednesday
Wednesday
9,519 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “voila” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [vwa.la] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “voila” en español
Rare enough to double-check
voila is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,478 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [vwa.la]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Veló. Tercera persona singular del pasado simple de indicativo de voiler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for voila, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is voila, spelled V-O-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Veló. Tercera persona singular del pasado simple de indicativo de voiler.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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