envolait
\ɑ̃.vɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“envolait” is uncommon French (frequency #73,969 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,969
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de envoler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-envolait · envolait · French
envolait · rank #73,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,969
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enverrez
Nearest frequency peer: enverrez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « envolait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entravant
entravant
26,035 corpus weight
- entreprendra
entreprendra
26,034 corpus weight
- enverrez
enverrez
26,033 corpus weight
- envolait
envolait
26,032 corpus weight
- envoy
envoy
26,031 corpus weight
- escomptée
escomptée
26,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « envolait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envolait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.vɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « envolait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
envolait is uncommon French at frequency #73,969 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.vɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de envoler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for envolait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is envolait, spelled E-N-V-O-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de envoler.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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