volons
\vɔ.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“volons” is uncommon French (frequency #80,771 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,771
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volons · volons · French
volons · rank #80,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,771
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vomissait
Nearest frequency peer: vomissait (+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 « volons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- viscère
viscère
19,233 corpus weight
- visualisez
visualisez
19,232 corpus weight
- volons
volons
19,230 corpus weight
- vomissait
vomissait
19,229 corpus weight
- vomitif
vomitif
19,228 corpus weight
- voracité
voracité
19,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « volons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « volons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
volons is uncommon French at frequency #80,771 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vɔ.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for volons, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is volons, spelled V-O-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de voler.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de voler.
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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