volute
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,579
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
volute is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ornement du chapiteau de la colonne ionique et de la colonne composite, fait en forme de spirale. Pronounced \vɔ.lyt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | volute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.lyt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for volute is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.lyt\. Corpus data places it at rank #82,579 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for volute in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is volute, spelled V-O-L-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ornement du chapiteau de la colonne ionique et de la colonne composite, fait en forme de spirale.
- 2Ornement en forme de spirale, à l’extrémité du manche d’un violon, viole, violoncelle ou contrebasse.
- 3Nom donné à des coquilles univalves tournées en cône pyramidal.
- 4Spirale, tourbillon, d’un fluide, fumée, brume, etc.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #82,579 in French
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