volent
\vɔl\
The verdict
“volent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,882
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volent · volent · French
volent · rank #11,882 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,882
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voice
Nearest frequency peer: voice (-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 « volent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vicieux
vicieux
88,122 corpus weight
- vitale
vitale
88,121 corpus weight
- voice
voice
88,120 corpus weight
- volent
volent
88,119 corpus weight
- végétale
végétale
88,118 corpus weight
- whisky
whisky
88,117 corpus weight
What this shows « volent » 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 | volent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around volent (IPA \vɔl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,882 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for volent, with forms such as "ovlent", "vloent", and "voelnt". 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, "vont", "volt", "voler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 volent, spelled V-O-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de voler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how volent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tamesloht est la cité des oiseaux : sous la claire lumière, des merles, des moineaux et des tourterelles volent sans cesse d’un arbre à l’autre, au milieu de la végétation surabondante, des « tbibits », petits oiseaux particuliers à la région de Marrakech, semblent chez eux ici, et viennent familièrement se disputer les miettes des repas dans les appartem…
À la ferme, Ambre et Aelis volent du temps aux jours pour bavarder au soleil en ravaudant un vêtement ou en préparant la soupe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlent
- vloent
- voelnt
- volennt
- volentt
- voletn
- vollent
- volnet
- vvolent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).