voulais

\vu.lɛ\

/\vu.lɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“voulais” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,216
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-voulais · voulais · French

voulais · rank #1,216 · 9 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,216
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH utilisation

Nearest frequency peer: utilisation (-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 « voulais »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « voulais » 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).

voulais vs voyais
71% similar
voulais vs voulus
71% similar
voulais vs voulait
86% similar

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

Key facts for voulais
PropertyValue
Headwordvoulais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\vu.lɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,216
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voulais »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).voulaisse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « utilisation » (#1,215), « étudiants » (#1,217), « absence » (#1,218). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « voulais » est au #1,216. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around voulais (IPA \vu.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,216 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for voulais, with forms such as "ovulais", "voluais", and "voualis". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "voyais", "voulus", "voulait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is voulais, spelled V-O-U-L-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vouloir.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vouloir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Je voulais les désattrouper, les disperser…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ovulais
  • voluais
  • voualis
  • voulaiss
  • voulasi
  • voulias
  • voullais
  • vuolais
  • vvoulais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ovulais2voluais2voualis2voulaiss1voulasi2voulias2voullais1vuolais2
Edit distance from "voulais"

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

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

Same letter count

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

absence#1,218blanche#1,221science#1,211capable#1,222

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

regard9 variantsoublier9 variantsroyaume9 variantsélèves9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list