virevolter
\viʁ.vɔl.te\
The verdict
“virevolter” is uncommon French (frequency #93,372 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,372
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des virevoltes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virevolter · virevolter · French
virevolter · rank #93,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,372
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vinyls
Nearest frequency peer: vinyls (-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 « virevolter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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veggie
6,634 corpus weight
- vinyls
vinyls
6,630 corpus weight
- virevolter
virevolter
6,629 corpus weight
- viscérales
viscérales
6,628 corpus weight
- vitamin
vitamin
6,627 corpus weight
- vixen
vixen
6,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « virevolter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virevolter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \viʁ.vɔl.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « virevolter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
virevolter is uncommon French at frequency #93,372 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \viʁ.vɔl.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for virevolter in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is virevolter, spelled V-I-R-E-V-O-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire des virevoltes.
- 2Se déplacer en tournoyant.
- 3Faire tourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how virevolter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les jeunes bourgeois de l’endroit me faisaient la cour, c’est-à-dire qu’ils virevoltaient devant moi comme des pruneaux dans de l’eau bouillante. »
Deux caniches nains et blancs virevoltaient autour de Claude Chevreuse, faisaient des cabrioles et prenaient entre leurs dents les bas, le soutien-gorge, les jarretelles, le slip au fur et à mesure qu’elle les ôtait.
This word in other languages
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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