volubilité
\vɔ.ly.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“volubilité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Facilité à se mouvoir, ou à être mu, en rond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volubilite · volubilité · French
volubilité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volubilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.ly.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
volubilité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔ.ly.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for volubilité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is volubilité, spelled V-O-L-U-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Facilité à se mouvoir, ou à être mu, en rond.
- 2Facilité, abondance ou rapidité très grandes de parole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how volubilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], ce qu'il expliquoit par la comparaison d'un cylindre , qui recevant une impulsion d'une cause étrangère , ne tient que de sa nature le mouvement déterminé de rotation , de volubilité , qui suit cette impulsion.
[…] ; on me raconta, avec la volubilité du triomphe, une foule de détails sur eux, détails curieux alors, et qui n’offrent plus aujourd’hui aucun intérêt.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.