volières
\vɔ.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“volières” is uncommon French (frequency #97,545 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,545
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de volière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volieres · volières · French
volières · rank #97,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH voye
Nearest frequency peer: voye (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « volières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vertébré
vertébré
2,459 corpus weight
- veules
veules
2,458 corpus weight
- volières
volières
2,456 corpus weight
- voye
voye
2,455 corpus weight
- VSL
VSL
2,454 corpus weight
- végétalisme
végétalisme
2,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « volières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « volières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
volières is uncommon French at frequency #97,545 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔ.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de volière.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for volières, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is volières, spelled V-O-L-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de volière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how volières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Déjà, la Bolivie a repris sa mission vétérinaire allemande, déjà la Station zoologique de Naples a rappelé un directeur allemand, déjà les Volières de New-York ont demandé du personnel à Hagenbeck et l'Argentine acclame nos botanistes.
[…] ; ils entendaient les gazouillements d'une multitude d'oiseaux exotiques aux couleurs merveilleuses ; après les volières, on leur fit visiter les ménageries pleines de quadrupèdes inconnus de nos climats.
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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