Volleyball
The verdict
“Volleyball” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,125. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,125
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volley-ball. Pas de pluriel dans ce sens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volleyball · Volleyball · French
Volleyball · rank #37,125 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,125
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vittorio
Nearest frequency peer: Vittorio (-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 « Volleyball »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vile
vile
62,879 corpus weight
- visière
visière
62,878 corpus weight
- Vittorio
Vittorio
62,877 corpus weight
- Volleyball
Volleyball
62,876 corpus weight
- wali
wali
62,875 corpus weight
- Whitaker
Whitaker
62,874 corpus weight
What this shows « Volleyball » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Volleyball |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Volleyball »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Volleyball, anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,125 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Volleyball, with forms such as "ovlleyball", "vloleyball", and "volelyball". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Volleyball, spelled V-O-L-L-E-Y-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Volley-ball. Pas de pluriel dans ce sens.
- 2Ballon de volley-ball.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Volleyball appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Volleyball ist rund
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlleyball
- vloleyball
- volelyball
- voleyball
- vollebyall
- volleyabll
- volleybal
- volleybball
- volleyblal
- volleyyball
- vollyeball
- vvolleyball
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Volleyball - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).