voleter
\vɔl.te\
The verdict
“voleter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voler à petits coups d’aile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voleter · voleter · French
voleter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voleter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔl.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voleter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voleter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \vɔl.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for voleter, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is voleter, spelled V-O-L-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Voler à petits coups d’aile.
- 2Se dit des choses légères qui semblent flotter dans l’air, balancées par le vent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voleter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les oiseaux voletaient çà et là en poussant des cris bizarres, tandis que d’autres cachés au plus épais du feuillage formaient de mélodieux concerts.
Nous devons avouer que dans ses rêves enfantins ne voletaient pas de beaux chérubins roses cravatés d’ailes blanches, ne bêlaient pas des moutons savonnés et ornés de faveurs, ne s’élevaient pas des palais de caramel à colonnes d’angélique.
This word in other languages
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.