volley
/ˈvɒli/
The verdict
“volley” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,933 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,933
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disparo simultaneo de armas de fuego, misiles, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-volley · volley · Spanish
volley · rank #58,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,933
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vocacionales
Nearest frequency peer: vocacionales (-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 “volley”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- virginal
virginal
41,073 corpus weight
- Viviane
Viviane
41,071 corpus weight
- viviéramos
viviéramos
41,070 corpus weight
- vocacionales
vocacionales
41,069 corpus weight
- volley
volley
41,068 corpus weight
- vulnerando
vulnerando
41,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “volley” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volley |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɒli/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “volley” en español
Rare enough to double-check
volley is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,933 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈvɒli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for volley, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is volley, spelled V-O-L-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Disparo simultaneo de armas de fuego, misiles, etc.
- 2Los proyectiles así disparados.
- 3Volea
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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