volet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,256
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
volet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tablette utilisée pour trier les petits objets, comme les grains, les cailloux, etc. Pronounced \vɔ.lɛ\. It ranks #6,256 in French word frequency. Often confused with vont and vote.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for volet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,256 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for volet, with forms such as "ovlet", "vloet", and "voelt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vont", "vote", "vols", 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 volet, spelled V-O-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tablette utilisée pour trier les petits objets, comme les grains, les cailloux, etc.
- 2Petit réduit servant à faire nicher des pigeons.
- 3Panneau, en bois ou en métal, ou battant qui protège une fenêtre, le plus souvent à l’extérieur.
- 4Vantail, aile ou partie d’un objet qui se replie.
- 5Partie mobile de l’aile d’un avion dont l’orientation permet de diriger l’appareil.
- 6Meuble représentant un disque de couleur verte dans les armoiries. Il s’agit d’un ancien nom utilisé pour le tourteau de sinople. À rapprocher de besant, besant-tourteau, gulpe, guse, heurte, œil de faucon, ogoesse, plate, pomme, somme, tourteau et tourteau-besant.
- 7Partie solidaire d'une construction intellectuelle.
- 8Partie d’un programme, d’une stratégie, d'une série.
- 9Nénuphar.
- 10Partie amovible d'un barndoor/coupe-flux permettant de laisser passer plus ou moins de lumières sur les côtés de la projection.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovlet,vloet,voelt,volett,vollet,vvolet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for volet
Misspelling Variants of "volet"
Frequency rank: #6,256 in French
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