volt
\vɔlt\
The verdict
“volt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,072
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de force électromotrice et de tension électrique du Système international, égale à la différence de potentiel entre deux points d’un conducteur transportant un courant d’un ampère q...
Corpus desk
Index FR-volt · volt · French
volt · rank #33,072 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,072
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH votation
Nearest frequency peer: votation (+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 « volt »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- viticoles
viticoles
66,932 corpus weight
- voi
voi
66,931 corpus weight
- volt
volt
66,929 corpus weight
- votation
votation
66,928 corpus weight
- vulcain
vulcain
66,927 corpus weight
- wedding
wedding
66,926 corpus weight
What this shows « volt » 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 | volt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔlt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volt »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around volt (IPA \vɔlt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,072 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unité de mesure de force électromotrice et de tension électrique du Système international, égale à la différence de potentiel entre deux points d’un conducteur transportant un courant d’un ampère q...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for volt, with forms such as "ovlt", "vlot", and "vollt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VT", "vos", "von", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is volt, spelled V-O-L-T.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de force électromotrice et de tension électrique du Système international, égale à la différence de potentiel entre deux points d’un conducteur transportant un courant d’un ampère quand la puissance dissipée entre ces deux points est d’un watt. Son symbole est V.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how volt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le régime électrolytique employé pour le dessuintage, dégraissage de la laine brute, est un courant de 300 à 350 ampères et de 10/15 volts.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovlt
- vlot
- vollt
- voltt
- votl
- vvolt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).