volée de bois vert
\vɔ.le də bwa vɛʁ\
The verdict
“volée de bois vert” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bastonnade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volée de bois vert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.le də bwa vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “volée de bois vert” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
volée de bois vert is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔ.le də bwa vɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
volée de bois vert doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 volée de bois vert, spelled V-O-L-É-E- -D-E- -B-O-I-S- -V-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Bastonnade.
- 2Avoinée, brossée, raclée.
- 3Vive remontrance.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “volée de bois vert”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-O-L-É-E- -D-E- -B-O-I-S- -V-E-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \vɔ.le də bwa vɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.