voltaire
\vɔl.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“voltaire” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,412. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,412
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fauteuil dont le haut dossier incliné, l'assise et les accoudoirs sont garnis et rembourrés, meuble caractéristique du style Louis-Philippe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voltaire · voltaire · French
voltaire · rank #9,412 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,412
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viendrait
Nearest frequency peer: viendrait (-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 « voltaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- variées
variées
90,592 corpus weight
- versement
versement
90,591 corpus weight
- viendrait
viendrait
90,590 corpus weight
- voltaire
voltaire
90,589 corpus weight
- végétaux
végétaux
90,588 corpus weight
- vérités
vérités
90,587 corpus weight
What this shows « voltaire » 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 | voltaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔl.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voltaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around voltaire (IPA \vɔl.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,412 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fauteuil dont le haut dossier incliné, l'assise et les accoudoirs sont garnis et rembourrés, meuble caractéristique du style Louis-Philippe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for voltaire, with forms such as "ovltaire", "vlotaire", and "volatire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "voltige", "vulgaire", "voltage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 voltaire, spelled V-O-L-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fauteuil dont le haut dossier incliné, l'assise et les accoudoirs sont garnis et rembourrés, meuble caractéristique du style Louis-Philippe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voltaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un très beau voltaire en acajou.
Gaga était allongée au fond de l’unique fauteuil, un voltaire de velours rouge.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovltaire
- vlotaire
- volatire
- volltaire
- voltaier
- voltairre
- voltarie
- voltiare
- volttaire
- votlaire
- vvoltaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voltaire - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "voltaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).