voltige
\vɔl.tiʒ\
The verdict
“voltige” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,360
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exercice d’agilité ou d’acrobatie, exécuté soit au trapèze, soit sur une corde lâche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voltige · voltige · French
voltige · rank #34,360 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,360
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH visconti
Nearest frequency peer: visconti (-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 « voltige »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- virile
virile
65,644 corpus weight
- visconti
visconti
65,642 corpus weight
- voltige
voltige
65,641 corpus weight
- voyer
voyer
65,640 corpus weight
- végétatif
végétatif
65,639 corpus weight
- zou
zou
65,638 corpus weight
What this shows « voltige » 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 | voltige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔl.tiʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voltige »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around voltige (IPA \vɔl.tiʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,360 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 voltige, with forms such as "ovltige", "vlotige", and "volitge". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "voltigeur", "volte", "volage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is voltige, spelled V-O-L-T-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Exercice d’agilité ou d’acrobatie, exécuté soit au trapèze, soit sur une corde lâche.
- 2Exercice exécuté sur un cheval nu ou portant une selle spéciale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voltige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Et la voltige ! T’as pas encore fait d’voltige, toi ? Ni au galop ni d’pied ferme ?
Cette démonstration unique dans les annales sera complétée par des exhibitions acrobatiques des deux as de la Djiquitovka, Serge et Michel Pakhomoff, rois de la haute voltige à cheval.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovltige
- vlotige
- volitge
- volltige
- voltgie
- voltieg
- voltigge
- volttige
- votlige
- vvoltige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voltige - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).