voulait
\vu.lɛ\
The verdict
“voulait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,081
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vouloir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voulait · voulait · French
voulait · rank #1,081 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,081
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH visite
Nearest frequency peer: visite (-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 « voulait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- viennent
viennent
98,923 corpus weight
- village
village
98,922 corpus weight
- visite
visite
98,921 corpus weight
- voulait
voulait
98,920 corpus weight
- voulez
voulez
98,919 corpus weight
- absolument
absolument
98,918 corpus weight
What this shows « voulait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voulait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vu.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voulait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around voulait (IPA \vu.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,081 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vouloir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for voulait, with forms such as "ovulait", "voluait", and "voualit". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "voyait", "vouloir", "voulant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is voulait, spelled V-O-U-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vouloir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voulait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le hasard voulait que des journalistes apprennent le temps perdu, on rééditerait certainement la chanson de Mac Nab.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovulait
- voluait
- voualit
- voulaitt
- voulati
- vouliat
- voullait
- vuolait
- vvoulait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voulait - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "voulait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).