vol à voile
\vɔ.l‿a.vwal\
The verdict
“vol à voile” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vol en planeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vol-a-voile · vol à voile · French
vol à voile · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vol à voile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.l‿a.vwal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vol à voile is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔ.l‿a.vwal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vol à voile in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vol à voile, spelled V-O-L- -À- -V-O-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Vol en planeur.
- 2Vol plané des oiseaux, sans battre les ailes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vol à voile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; c'est pour cela que nous devons développer tous les sports de l'aviation privée, le vol à moteur comme le tourisme, le vol à voile et, particulièrement, donner notre attention à l'aéromodélisme qui intéresse des millions de jeunes gens, en mettant sur pied une organisation pour développer l'aéromodélisme sous le drapeau de la F.A.I.
Ce genre de vol à voile se pratique d’autant plus facilement que la charge alaire de l’oiseau est plus grande.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.