voil
The verdict
“voil” is uncommon French (frequency #59,717 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,717
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volonté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voil · voil · French
voil · rank #59,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,717
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vocalises
Nearest frequency peer: vocalises (-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 « voil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vilebrequin
vilebrequin
40,289 corpus weight
- violacé
violacé
40,288 corpus weight
- Virton
Virton
40,287 corpus weight
- vocalises
vocalises
40,285 corpus weight
- voil
voil
40,284 corpus weight
- Voiron
Voiron
40,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « voil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voil is uncommon French at frequency #59,717 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for voil, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is voil, spelled V-O-I-L.
Definition
- 1Volonté.
- 2Vouloir, désir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car ja ton vuel nel conoistras
Mon wel seroie jou orendroit morte
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).