voltage
\vɔl.taʒ\
The verdict
“voltage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,098
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tension électrique en volts nécessaires au fonctionnement d’un appareil électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voltage · voltage · French
voltage · rank #39,098 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,098
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH VL
Nearest frequency peer: VL (-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 « voltage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vidéaste
vidéaste
60,907 corpus weight
- villageoise
villageoise
60,906 corpus weight
- VL
VL
60,904 corpus weight
- voltage
voltage
60,903 corpus weight
- weather
weather
60,901 corpus weight
- weekends
weekends
60,900 corpus weight
What this shows « voltage » 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 | voltage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔl.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voltage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around voltage (IPA \vɔl.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,098 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for voltage, with forms such as "ovltage", "vlotage", and "volatge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "volte", "voyage", "voltige", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is voltage, spelled V-O-L-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tension électrique en volts nécessaires au fonctionnement d’un appareil électrique.
- 2Tension électrique ; différence de potentiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voltage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand les morceaux touchent les contacts, la grille reçoit des voltages différents suivant leur résistivité. Si le voltage est suffisant, la valve actionne un relais qui ferme le circuit d'un mécanisme électrique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovltage
- vlotage
- volatge
- volltage
- voltaeg
- voltagge
- voltgae
- volttage
- votlage
- vvoltage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voltage - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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