voltigeur
\vɔl.ti.ʒœʁ\
The verdict
“voltigeur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,101
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne ou pratique la voltige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voltigeur · voltigeur · French
voltigeur · rank #38,101 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,101
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Volga
Nearest frequency peer: Volga (-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 « voltigeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- visqueux
visqueux
61,903 corpus weight
- volatils
volatils
61,902 corpus weight
- Volga
Volga
61,901 corpus weight
- voltigeur
voltigeur
61,900 corpus weight
- volutes
volutes
61,899 corpus weight
- vénitienne
vénitienne
61,898 corpus weight
What this shows « voltigeur » 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 | voltigeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɔl.ti.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voltigeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around voltigeur (IPA \vɔl.ti.ʒœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,101 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for voltigeur, with forms such as "ovltigeur", "vlotigeur", and "volitgeur". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "voltigeurs", "voltige", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is voltigeur, spelled V-O-L-T-I-G-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne ou pratique la voltige.
- 2Qui va çà et là, sans se fixer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voltigeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des délégués de l'USC purent en effet assister aux prestations des motards du peloton voltigeur motorisé, le PVM, une unité de prestige […]
Leur seul adieu au jardin est de secouer sur son seuil des perles de rosée, dans un geste que fait Arlette pour écarter de ses yeux des cheveux voltigeurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovltigeur
- vlotigeur
- volitgeur
- volltigeur
- voltgieur
- voltiegur
- voltigeru
- voltigeurr
- voltiggeur
- voltiguer
- volttigeur
- votligeur
- vvoltigeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voltigeur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).