vol

/\vɔl\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#929

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vol is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement des oiseaux et de divers animaux, qui se soutiennent et avancent dans l’air au moyen de leurs ailes. Pronounced \vɔl\. It ranks #929 in French word frequency. Often confused with vu and vs.

Key facts for vol
PropertyValue
Headwordvol
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɔl\
Letters3
Frequency rank#929
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vol is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #929 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vol in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vs", "VR", 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 vol, spelled V-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mouvement des oiseaux et de divers animaux, qui se soutiennent et avancent dans l’air au moyen de leurs ailes.
  2. 2
    Mouvement des appareils plus lourds que l’air qui s’élèvent et se meuvent dans l’air.
  3. 3
    Déplacement ou transport de ceux qui montent dans ces appareils.
  4. 4
    Étendue, longueur, durée, de ce déplacement en une fois.
  5. 5
    Quantité d’oiseaux ou d’insectes qui arrivent en même temps en un lieu.
  6. 6
    Meuble représentant une paire d’ailes attachées dans les armoiries. Il est représenté éployé (on voit le dessous des ailes), les rémiges primaires pointant vers le chef. À rapprocher de aile et demi-vol.
  7. 7
    Se dit des ailes des oiseaux lorsque celles-ci ont une caractéristique (forme, position, nature, orientation…) qui sort de l’ordinaire.
  8. 8
    Série d’étapes d’un algorithme ou d’une suite récurrente aboutissant par exemple à une racine, à un point fixe, à un cycle, etc.
  9. 9
    Chasse avec des oiseaux de proie.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #929 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vol"?
"vol" is spelled V-O-L. The IPA pronunciation is \vɔl\.
What does "vol" mean?
As a noun, "vol" means: Mouvement des oiseaux et de divers animaux, qui se soutiennent et avancent dans l’air au moyen de leurs ailes.
What words are commonly confused with "vol"?
"vol" is commonly confused with "vu", "vs", "VR". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vol"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vol" is \vɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vol" come from?
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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.