de la première volée

\də la pʁə.mjɛʁ vɔ.le\

/\də la pʁə.mjɛʁ vɔ.le\/ adj

The verdict

“de la première 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
20
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.

Key facts for de la première volée
PropertyValue
Headwordde la première volée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\də la pʁə.mjɛʁ vɔ.le\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “de la première volée” sits in French frequency

de la première volée falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for de la première volée is 20 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də la pʁə.mjɛʁ 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 la première 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 la première volée, spelled D-E- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-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. 1
    & De haut niveau social, intellectuel ou moral, en parlant d’une chose ou d’une personne.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "de la première volée"?
"de la première volée" is spelled D-E- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -V-O-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \də la pʁə.mjɛʁ vɔ.le\.
What does "de la première volée" mean?
As an adjective, "de la première volée" means: & De haut niveau social, intellectuel ou moral, en parlant d’une chose ou d’une personne.
How do you pronounce "de la première volée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "de la première volée" is \də la pʁə.mjɛʁ vɔ.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “de la première volée”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-E- -L-A- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -V-O-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \də la pʁə.mjɛʁ vɔ.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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