volants
\vɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“volants” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,367
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de volant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volants · volants · French
volants · rank #18,367 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,367
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voilées
Nearest frequency peer: voilées (-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 « volants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vivais
vivais
81,637 corpus weight
- Vivian
Vivian
81,636 corpus weight
- voilées
voilées
81,635 corpus weight
- volants
volants
81,634 corpus weight
- vouliez
vouliez
81,633 corpus weight
- vôtres
vôtres
81,632 corpus weight
What this shows « volants » 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 | volants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around volants (IPA \vɔ.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,367 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de volant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for volants, with forms such as "ovlants", "vloants", and "voalnts". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "volts", "voyant", "volets", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 volants, spelled V-O-L-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de volant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how volants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’habitude du cocktail s’est généralisée : il faut des meubles-bars, des guéridons volants où déposer les verres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlants
- vloants
- voalnts
- volannts
- volanst
- volantss
- volantts
- volatns
- vollants
- volnats
- vvolants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volants - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "volants", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).