voudrais

\vu.dʁɛ\

/\vu.dʁɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“voudrais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,456
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de vouloir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-voudrais · voudrais · French

voudrais · rank #2,456 · 11 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,456
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vaste

Nearest frequency peer: vaste (-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 « voudrais »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « voudrais » 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).

voudrais vs voulais
75% similar
voudrais vs voudras
88% similar
voudrais vs voudrait
88% similar

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

Key facts for voudrais
PropertyValue
Headwordvoudrais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\vu.dʁɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,456
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voudrais »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.voudraisse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vaste » (#2,455), « équilibre » (#2,458), « suffisamment » (#2,453). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « voudrais » est au #2,456. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around voudrais (IPA \vu.dʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,456 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 voudrais, with forms such as "ovudrais", "vodurais", and "voudaris". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "voulais", "voudras", "voudrait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is voudrais, spelled V-O-U-D-R-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de vouloir.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel de vouloir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Vous remarquerez que je ris aussi, car je ne voudrais pas, pour le monde entier, être assez désanglaisé pour faire autrement.
  2. Je m’en voudrais d’oublier ici les deux interprètes sans qui rien n’eût été possible, Anne-Marie Bisaro et Corinne Gache.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ovudrais
  • vodurais
  • voudaris
  • vouddrais
  • voudraiss
  • voudrasi
  • voudrias
  • voudrrais
  • vourdais
  • vuodrais
  • vvoudrais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ovudrais2vodurais2voudaris2vouddrais1voudraiss1voudrasi2voudrias2voudrrais1
Edit distance from "voudrais"

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 "voudrais"?
"voudrais" is spelled V-O-U-D-R-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vu.dʁɛ\.
What does "voudrais" mean?
As a verb, "voudrais" means: Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de vouloir.
What words are commonly confused with "voudrais"?
"voudrais" is commonly confused with "voulais", "voudras", "voudrait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "voudrais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voudrais" is \vu.dʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voudrais" come from?
"voudrais" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list