voiler
\vwa.le\
The verdict
“voiler” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,812
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvrir d’un voile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voiler · voiler · French
voiler · rank #21,812 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,812
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vivacité
Nearest frequency peer: vivacité (-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 « voiler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- virtuelles
virtuelles
78,192 corpus weight
- visitez
visitez
78,191 corpus weight
- vivacité
vivacité
78,190 corpus weight
- voiler
voiler
78,189 corpus weight
- volts
volts
78,188 corpus weight
- Werner
Werner
78,186 corpus weight
What this shows « voiler » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vwa.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voiler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around voiler (IPA \vwa.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,812 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for voiler, with forms such as "oviler", "voielr", and "voilerr". 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, "voir", "volé", "voire", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is voiler, spelled V-O-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couvrir d’un voile.
- 2Dérober la vue de quelque chose, en le couvrant comme d’un voile.
- 3Cacher.
- 4Déformer (en forme de voile de navire) une surface plane, courber une barre.
- 5S'estomper, se dissimuler partiellement à la vue, comme caché par un voile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voiler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’adoption de ce châle a rendu leur costume plus décent en voilant, dans son ampleur, le nu et les formes un peu trop fortement dessinées.
[…] je regardais les gens entrer dans la cour, les hommes en redingotes sombres, les femmes long voilées de noir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oviler
- voielr
- voilerr
- voiller
- voilre
- volier
- vvoiler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voiler - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).