voilou
\vwa.lu\
The verdict
“voilou” is uncommon French (frequency #51,813 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,813
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de voilà, employé la plupart du temps avec voili (autre variante de voilà) ou de façon redoublée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voilou · voilou · French
voilou · rank #51,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,813
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH visiteuse
Nearest frequency peer: visiteuse (-2 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 « voilou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Villedieu
Villedieu
48,192 corpus weight
- vindicatif
vindicatif
48,191 corpus weight
- visiteuse
visiteuse
48,190 corpus weight
- voilou
voilou
48,188 corpus weight
- végane
végane
48,186 corpus weight
- Vézelay
Vézelay
48,184 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « voilou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voilou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vwa.lu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voilou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voilou is uncommon French at frequency #51,813 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vwa.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de voilà, employé la plupart du temps avec voili (autre variante de voilà) ou de façon redoublée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for voilou, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is voilou, spelled V-O-I-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Variante de voilà, employé la plupart du temps avec voili (autre variante de voilà) ou de façon redoublée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voilou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voili, voilou, nous sommes arrivés.
Voilou, voilou, nous sommes au bout.
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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