volcano
\vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ\
The verdict
“volcano” is uncommon French (frequency #76,224 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,224
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volcan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volcano · volcano · French
volcano · rank #76,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,224
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vocalique
Nearest frequency peer: vocalique (-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 « volcano »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vineux
vineux
23,781 corpus weight
- vocalique
vocalique
23,778 corpus weight
- volcano
volcano
23,777 corpus weight
- vouvoiement
vouvoiement
23,776 corpus weight
- voyagistes
voyagistes
23,775 corpus weight
- védique
védique
23,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « volcano » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volcano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « volcano » en français
Rare enough to double-check
volcano is uncommon French at frequency #76,224 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Volcan.".
volcano has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 volcano, spelled V-O-L-C-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Volcan.
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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