volaille
\vɔ.lɑj\
The verdict
“volaille” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,187. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,187
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des oiseaux qu’on nourrit ordinairement dans une basse-cour, et principalement des poules, poulets et chapons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volaille · volaille · French
volaille · rank #19,187 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,187
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH virale
Nearest frequency peer: virale (-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 « volaille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Villers
Villers
80,816 corpus weight
- virale
virale
80,815 corpus weight
- volaille
volaille
80,814 corpus weight
- vélodrome
vélodrome
80,813 corpus weight
- Waterloo
Waterloo
80,812 corpus weight
- Winnipeg
Winnipeg
80,811 corpus weight
What this shows « volaille » 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 | volaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɑj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volaille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around volaille (IPA \vɔ.lɑj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,187 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for volaille, with forms such as "ovlaille", "vloaille", and "voalille". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "volatile", "volailles", "vaille", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is volaille, spelled V-O-L-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des oiseaux qu’on nourrit ordinairement dans une basse-cour, et principalement des poules, poulets et chapons.
- 2Oiseau de basse-cour, parfois aussi le lapin d’élevage.
- 3Viande d’un animal de basse-cour, mais généralement du poulet ou de la poule.
- 4La police.
- 5Prostituée.
- 6Étudiant préparant une école militaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how volaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; on cultive aussi un peu de sarrasin, ou blé noir qui sert au chauffage dans un pays privé de bois, et dont les grains sont donnés en nourriture à la volaille.
En réponse, la préfecture met en place des zones de contrôle temporaire (ZCT) dans lesquelles les éleveurs de volaille sont invités à maintenir leurs bêtes à l’abri.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlaille
- vloaille
- voalille
- volaile
- volailel
- volalile
- volialle
- vollaille
- vvolaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volaille - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).