volonté
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,193
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
volonté is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faculté de vouloir, de se déterminer à quelque chose ; en particulier, cette faculté même en tant qu’elle est plus ou moins agissante. Pronounced \vɔ.lɔ̃.te\. It ranks #1,193 in French word frequency. Often confused with volte and voyante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volonté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for volonté is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.lɔ̃.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,193 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for volonté, with forms such as "ovlonté", "vloonté", and "vollonté". 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.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "volte", "voyante", "volupté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is volonté, spelled V-O-L-O-N-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faculté de vouloir, de se déterminer à quelque chose ; en particulier, cette faculté même en tant qu’elle est plus ou moins agissante.
- 2Ardeur pour les choses qu’on entreprend ; fermeté du caractère ; capacité à se faire obéir.
- 3Disposition où l’on est pour quelqu’un, pour quelque chose. Désir de bien ou mal faire.
- 4Les actes mêmes de la volonté, de ce qu’une personne veut, prescrit ou désire.
- 5Exigence, désir, caprice, fantaisie.
- 6Capacité à exécuter tous les ordres donnés, et même à se porter volontaire pour des opérations risquées.
- 7Capacité à accomplir un acte de façon intentionnelle, consciemment.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovlonté,vloonté,vollonté,volnoté,volonnté,volonte,volontté,volonét,volotné,voolnté,vvolonté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for volonté
Misspelling Variants of "volonté"
Frequency rank: #1,193 in French
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Nearby French words
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