volière
\vɔ.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“volière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,428. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,428
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de grande cage où l’on nourrit des oiseaux pour son plaisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voliere · volière · French
volière · rank #49,428 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,428
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vlan
Nearest frequency peer: vlan (-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 « volière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verriers
verriers
50,577 corpus weight
- vial
vial
50,576 corpus weight
- viv
viv
50,575 corpus weight
- vlan
vlan
50,574 corpus weight
- volière
volière
50,573 corpus weight
- voteraient
voteraient
50,572 corpus weight
What this shows « volière » 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 | volière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around volière (IPA \vɔ.ljɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,428 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for volière, with forms such as "ovlière", "vloière", and "voilère". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "voire", "voler", "volée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is volière, spelled V-O-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de grande cage où l’on nourrit des oiseaux pour son plaisir.
- 2Réduit entouré de grillages où l’on nourrit des pigeons, des faisans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how volière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai pas l’habitude de signer des contrats dans une volière!!
Le château de Michel Pacha est entouré d’un jardin planté d’essences exotiques et de palmiers, avec escaliers à double volée, exèdres à degrés, kiosque-belvédère en forme de tempietto, volières, serres, nymphées, fontaines et édicules de rocaille à la marseillaise.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlière
- vloière
- voilère
- voliere
- volirèe
- volièer
- volièrre
- vollière
- volèire
- vvolière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volière - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).