volailles
\vɔ.laj\
The verdict
“volailles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,020
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de volaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volailles · volailles · French
volailles · rank #20,020 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,020
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vitraux
Nearest frequency peer: vitraux (-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 « volailles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vilains
vilains
79,984 corpus weight
- violons
violons
79,983 corpus weight
- vitraux
vitraux
79,982 corpus weight
- volailles
volailles
79,981 corpus weight
- vomissements
vomissements
79,980 corpus weight
- Wellington
Wellington
79,979 corpus weight
What this shows « volailles » 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 | volailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.laj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volailles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around volailles (IPA \vɔ.laj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,020 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de volaille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for volailles, with forms such as "ovlailles", "vloailles", and "voalilles". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "volatiles", "volaille", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is volailles, spelled V-O-L-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de volaille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how volailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlailles
- vloailles
- voalilles
- volailels
- volailes
- volailless
- volaillse
- volaliles
- volialles
- vollailles
- vvolailles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volailles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "volailles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).