volée
\vɔ.le\
The verdict
“volée” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,055 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,055
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Action de voler, vol, envol, en parlant des oiseaux et de certains animaux comme les insectes.
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 | volée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “volée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for volée is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,055 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for volée, with forms such as "ovlée", "vloée", and "volee". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vote", "vols", "voue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is volée, spelled V-O-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de voler, vol, envol, en parlant des oiseaux et de certains animaux comme les insectes.
- 2Bande d’oiseaux qui volent ensemble.
- 3Ensemble des couvées du même mois, en parlant des pigeons,
- 4Gens qui sont de même âge, de même profession, de même condition, et surtout des jeunes gens.
- 5Élévation.
- 6Rang, qualité.
- 7Partie d'une pièce d’artillerie comprise entre les tourillons et la bouche.
- 8Branle des cloches.
- 9Ensemble de coups nombreux et consécutifs.
- 10Raclée ; coups portés à mains nues.
- 11Décharge, en parlant de plusieurs canons qui tirent en même temps.
- 12Groupe de trous de mines mis à feu en même temps.
- 13Pièce de bois transversale fixée soit à l’avant d’une voiture, soit à l’extrémité d’un timon pour y attacher les traits des chevaux de second rang.
- 14Planches en travers de la roue d’une usine, qui entrent dans l’eau.
- 15Mouvement d’une balle ou d’un ballon depuis le moment où ils sont lancés jusqu’à celui où ils touchent le sol, au tennis, jeu de paume ou jeux de ballon.
- 16Succession de marches d’un escalier entre deux paliers.
- 17Succession d'échelons d'une échelle ou des brins fixes d'une échelle coulissante.
- 18Un grand nombre, une grande quantité.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovlée,vloée,volee,voleé,vollée,voéle,vvolée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "volée"
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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PlainSpell, “volée, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/volee
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Using “volée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-O-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vɔ.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vote” - see the side-by-side comparison. volée vs vote
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