de haute volée
\də ot(ə) vɔ.le\
The verdict
“de haute volée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - & De haut niveau social, intellectuel ou moral, en parlant d’une chose ou d’une personne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de haute volée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \də ot(ə) vɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de haute volée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de haute volée is 14 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də ot(ə) vɔ.le\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "& De haut niveau social, intellectuel ou moral, en parlant d’une chose ou d’une personne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de haute volée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is de haute volée, spelled D-E- -H-A-U-T-E- -V-O-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1& De haut niveau social, intellectuel ou moral, en parlant d’une chose ou d’une personne.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -H-A-U-T-E- -V-O-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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