Volleyball

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Volleyball » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Volleyball
PropertyValue
HeadwordVolleyball
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#37,125
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Volleyball »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Volleyballse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Vittorio » (#37,124), « wali » (#37,126), « visière » (#37,123). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « Volleyball » est au #37,125. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Volley-ball. Pas de pluriel dans ce sens.
  2. 2
    Ballon de volley-ball.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Volleyball appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

ovlleyball2vloleyball2volelyball2voleyball1vollebyall2volleyabll2volleybal1volleybball1
Edit distance from "Volleyball"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Volleyball"?
"Volleyball" is spelled V-O-L-L-E-Y-B-A-L-L.
What does "Volleyball" mean?
As a noun, "Volleyball" means: Volley-ball. Pas de pluriel dans ce sens.
What are common misspellings of "Volleyball"?
Common misspellings include "ovlleyball", "vloleyball", "volelyball", "voleyball", "vollebyall". The correct spelling is "Volleyball".
What language does "Volleyball" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Volleyball", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list