voluble
\vɔ.lybl\
The verdict
“voluble” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de volubile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voluble · voluble · French
voluble · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | voluble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɔ.lybl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « voluble » en français
Rare enough to double-check
voluble is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɔ.lybl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de volubile.".
voluble has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 voluble, spelled V-O-L-U-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de volubile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voluble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Lithuaniens fuyaient quelquefois à notre approche ; les Juifs restaient… on les reconnaissait à leur prononciation grasse, à leur élocution voluble et précipitée, à la vivacité de leurs mouvements.
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.