volet

/\vɔ.lɛ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for volet
PropertyValue
Headwordvolet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɔ.lɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,256
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of volet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Tablette utilisée pour trier les petits objets, comme les grains, les cailloux, etc.
  2. 2
    Petit réduit servant à faire nicher des pigeons.
  3. 3
    Panneau, en bois ou en métal, ou battant qui protège une fenêtre, le plus souvent à l’extérieur.
  4. 4
    Vantail, aile ou partie d’un objet qui se replie.
  5. 5
    Partie mobile de l’aile d’un avion dont l’orientation permet de diriger l’appareil.
  6. 6
    Meuble 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.
  7. 7
    Partie solidaire d'une construction intellectuelle.
  8. 8
    Partie d’un programme, d’une stratégie, d'une série.
  9. 9
    Nénuphar.
  10. 10
    Partie amovible d'un barndoor/coupe-flux permettant de laisser passer plus ou moins de lumières sur les côtés de la projection.

Synonyms

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"

ovlet5vloet5voelt5volett6vollet6vvolet6
Misspelling Variants of "volet"

Frequency rank: #6,256 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "volet"?
"volet" is spelled V-O-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \vɔ.lɛ\.
What does "volet" mean?
As a noun, "volet" means: Tablette utilisée pour trier les petits objets, comme les grains, les cailloux, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "volet"?
"volet" is commonly confused with "vont", "vote", "vols". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "volet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "volet" is \vɔ.lɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "volet" come from?
"volet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.