voile

/\vwal\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,653

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

voile is aFrenchnoun. It means: Large pièce de tissu assurant la propulsion des navires ou des moulins, par la force du vent. Pronounced \vwal\. It ranks #2,653 in French word frequency. Often confused with vol and voir.

Key facts for voile
PropertyValue
Headwordvoile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vwal\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,653
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of voile in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for voile is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwal\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,653 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for voile, with forms such as "ovile", "voiel", and "voille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vol", "voir", "vois", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 voile, spelled V-O-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Large pièce de tissu assurant la propulsion des navires ou des moulins, par la force du vent.
  2. 2
    Désigne le kiosque d’un sous-marin, par analogie de forme. Notes : dans ce sens on trouve aussi le mot au masculin : voir voile au masculin.
  3. 3
    Bateau à voile.
  4. 4
    Pratique de la navigation en bateau à voile, nautisme.
  5. 5
    Train de bois flotté sur les rivières de l'est de la France.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovile,voiel,voille,volie,vvoile

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for voile

Misspelling Variants of "voile"

ovile5voiel5voille6volie5vvoile6
Misspelling Variants of "voile"

Frequency rank: #2,653 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voile"?
"voile" is spelled V-O-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vwal\.
What does "voile" mean?
As a noun, "voile" means: Large pièce de tissu assurant la propulsion des navires ou des moulins, par la force du vent.
What words are commonly confused with "voile"?
"voile" is commonly confused with "vol", "voir", "vois". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "voile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voile" is \vwal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voile" come from?
"voile" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.