voile

\vwal\

/\vwal\/ noun

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The verdict

“voile” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,653
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Large pièce de tissu assurant la propulsion des navires ou des moulins, par la force du vent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-voile · voile · French

voile · rank #2,653 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,653
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH voient

Nearest frequency peer: voient (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « voile »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « voile » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

voile vs vol
60% similar
voile vs voir
60% similar
voile vs vois
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voile »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.voilese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « voient » (#2,652), « W » (#2,654), « vigueur » (#2,651). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « voile » est au #2,653. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around voile (IPA \vwal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,653 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for voile, with forms such as "ovile", "voiel", and "voille". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is voile, spelled V-O-I-L-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how voile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le matelot siffla ses hommes, sur un ordre qu’il leur donna, ils sautèrent tous sur le Saint-Ferdinand, grimpèrent dans les cordages, et se mirent à le dépouiller de ses vergues, de ses voiles, de ses agrès.
  2. Des barques avec des voiles latines posées en ciseaux descendaient et remontaient le cours du fleuve sous le même vent, phénomène que je n’ai jamais bien compris, quoiqu’on me l’ait expliqué plusieurs fois. Quelques-uns de ces bateaux portaient une troisième petite voile en forme de triangle isocèle, posée dans l’écartement produit par les pointes diverge…

This word in other languages

sail(English)vela(Español)Segel(Deutsch)vela(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ovile
  • voiel
  • voille
  • volie
  • vvoile

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voile - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ovile2voiel2voille1volie2vvoile1
Edit distance from "voile"

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.

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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "voile", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

taxe5 variantsfixe5 variantsbases5 variantsLoire5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list