volais
\vɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“volais” is uncommon French (frequency #98,634 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,634
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de voler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volais · volais · French
volais · rank #98,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,634
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vitreuse
Nearest frequency peer: vitreuse (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « volais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- virevolte
virevolte
1,369 corpus weight
- vitreuse
vitreuse
1,368 corpus weight
- volais
volais
1,367 corpus weight
- vénérées
vénérées
1,366 corpus weight
- waker
waker
1,365 corpus weight
- wallaby
wallaby
1,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « volais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « volais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
volais is uncommon French at frequency #98,634 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
volais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is volais, spelled V-O-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de voler.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de voler.
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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