volcan
\vɔl.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“volcan” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,970
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture, gouffre qui s’ouvre sur une chambre magmatique et d’où il sort périodiquement des tourbillons de feu et de fumée, des cendres et des matières en fusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volcan · volcan · French
volcan · rank #10,970 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,970
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voeux
Nearest frequency peer: voeux (-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 « volcan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- variantes
variantes
89,034 corpus weight
- verrons
verrons
89,033 corpus weight
- voeux
voeux
89,032 corpus weight
- volcan
volcan
89,031 corpus weight
- Wallonie
Wallonie
89,029 corpus weight
- when
when
89,028 corpus weight
What this shows « volcan » 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 | volcan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔl.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volcan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around volcan (IPA \vɔl.kɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,970 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for volcan, with forms such as "ovlcan", "vlocan", and "voclan". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "volta", "Volga", "volcans", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is volcan, spelled V-O-L-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ouverture, gouffre qui s’ouvre sur une chambre magmatique et d’où il sort périodiquement des tourbillons de feu et de fumée, des cendres et des matières en fusion.
- 2Se dit d’une imagination vive, ardente, impétueuse.
- 3Se dit aussi en parlant des intrigues sourdes, des conspirations, des dangers imminents, mais cachés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how volcan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après un tel paroxysme, l’éboulement des côtés du cratère obstrue encore plus l’orifice du volcan, et l’oblitère entièrement. On peut alors procéder à des observations […]
Beaucoup des tripolis et des randanites (ou Kieselguhr), dites souvent improprement « terres d’Infusoires », qui sont employées dans l’industrie, se sont ainsi formés autrefois dans les lacs de notre pays d’Auvergne, en particulier dans le versant nord de l’ancien grand volcan du Cantal […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlcan
- vlocan
- voclan
- volacn
- volcann
- volccan
- volcna
- vollcan
- vvolcan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volcan - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).