volley
\vɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“volley” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,284
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volley-ball.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volley · volley · French
volley · rank #15,284 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,284
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH woody
Nearest frequency peer: woody (+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 « volley »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vibrer
vibrer
84,720 corpus weight
- Vidal
Vidal
84,719 corpus weight
- volley
volley
84,717 corpus weight
- woody
woody
84,716 corpus weight
- yaourt
yaourt
84,715 corpus weight
- électoraux
électoraux
84,714 corpus weight
What this shows « volley » 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 | volley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volley »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around volley (IPA \vɔ.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,284 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for volley, with forms such as "ovlley", "vloley", and "volely". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "volte", "voulez", "volé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is volley, spelled V-O-L-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Volley-ball.
- 2Partie de volley-ball.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how volley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant au volley, je n’ai jamais bien su ce que c’était. On devait jeter quelque chose en l’air, sur des terrains fangeux, avec de la boue dans les yeux, et recevoir des coups sur les genoux qui provoquaient des épanchements de synovie.
Le passeur de l’équipe de France de volley Antoine Brizard revient sur ses récents succès, alors que son équipe affronte le Japon en 8ᵉ de finale du Mondial ce lundi
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlley
- vloley
- volely
- voley
- volleyy
- vollye
- vvolley
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volley - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).