voulant
\vu.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“voulant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,413
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de vouloir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-voulant · voulant · French
voulant · rank #5,413 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,413
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH will
Nearest frequency peer: will (+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 « voulant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trio
trio
94,591 corpus weight
- tristesse
tristesse
94,590 corpus weight
- voulant
voulant
94,588 corpus weight
- will
will
94,587 corpus weight
- étages
étages
94,585 corpus weight
- étudiante
étudiante
94,584 corpus weight
What this shows « voulant » 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 | voulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vu.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « voulant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around voulant (IPA \vu.lɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,413 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de vouloir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for voulant, with forms such as "ovulant", "voluant", and "voualnt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "voyant", "voulons", "volant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is voulant, spelled V-O-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de vouloir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Angelo aime la Tisbé, cependant que la Tisbé aime Rodolfo, lequel aime Catarina, celle-ci voulant se garder pour Angelo.
Raison pour quoi, comme avait si bien observé déjà mon Miroul, je n’y allais que d’une fesse, un pied déjà sur le recul, contrefeignant de ne pas apercevoir que Doña Clara dépassait avec moi — le voulant, le noulant — le seuil de l’amitié, ce que son bel œil d’un bleu profond, bordé de cils noirs, m’avait dit plus d’une fois.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovulant
- voluant
- voualnt
- voulannt
- voulantt
- voulatn
- voullant
- voulnat
- vuolant
- vvoulant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of voulant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "voulant", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).