volupté

\vɔ.lyp.te\

/\vɔ.lyp.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“volupté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,805
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaisir des sens.

Corpus desk

Index FR-volupte · volupté · French

volupté · rank #34,805 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,805
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH virtual

Nearest frequency peer: virtual (-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 « volupté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « volupté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

volupté vs voûté
57% similar
volupté vs volutes
57% similar
volupté vs volte
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for volupté
PropertyValue
Headwordvolupté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɔ.lyp.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#34,805
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « volupté »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).voluptése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « virtual » (#34,804), « vérifiant » (#34,806), « vigilante » (#34,803). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « volupté » est au #34,805. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around volupté (IPA \vɔ.lyp.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,805 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for volupté, with forms such as "ovlupté", "vloupté", and "vollupté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "voûté", "volutes", "volte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is volupté, spelled V-O-L-U-P-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plaisir des sens.
  2. 2
    Plaisirs de l’âme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how volupté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comme vous êtes loin, paradis parfumé, Où sous un clair azur tout n’est qu’amour et joie, Où tout ce que l’on aime est digne d’être aimé, Où dans la volupté pure le cœur se noie! Comme vous êtes loin, paradis parfumé!
  2. Plus que vous encore je hais le grivois. La volupté qui rit n’existe point. Le plaisir touche de plus près à la douleur qu’à la gaieté […]

This word in other languages

lust(English)voluptuosidad(Español)Lust(Deutsch)sensualidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ovlupté
  • vloupté
  • vollupté
  • volputé
  • voluppté
  • volupte
  • voluptté
  • volupét
  • volutpé
  • voulpté
  • vvolupté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of volupté - 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.

ovlupté2vloupté2vollupté1volputé2voluppté1volupte1voluptté1volupét2
Edit distance from "volupté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "volupté"?
"volupté" is spelled V-O-L-U-P-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \vɔ.lyp.te\.
What does "volupté" mean?
As a noun, "volupté" means: Plaisir des sens.
What words are commonly confused with "volupté"?
"volupté" is commonly confused with "voûté", "volutes", "volte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "volupté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "volupté" is \vɔ.lyp.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "volupté" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "volupté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

virtual#34,804Wyoming#34,812égalise#34,815élancer#34,818

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

élisent11 variantstripler11 variantsémanent11 variantsépineuse11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list