volage
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,949
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
volage is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est changeant et léger. Pronounced \vɔ.laʒ\. Often confused with volé and volée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \vɔ.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for volage is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.laʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,949 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for volage, with forms such as "ovlage", "vloage", and "voalge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "volé", "volée", "volte", 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 volage, spelled V-O-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est changeant et léger.
- 2Qui pratique l'infidélité conjugale.
- 3Embarcation instable et susceptible de chavirer.
- 4Boussole dont l'aiguille est trop mobile.
- 5Se disait de canon dont le recul était trop fort.
- 6Qualifie une maladie dont les symptômes apparaissent et disparaissent rapidement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovlage,vloage,voalge,volaeg,volagge,volgae,vollage,vvolage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for volage
Misspelling Variants of "volage"
Frequency rank: #45,949 in French
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Nearby French words
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