vuelta
The verdict
“vuelta” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #28,021 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #28,021
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tour de piste d’honneur, pour un torero particulièrement brillant.
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 | vuelta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vuelta” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vuelta is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #28,021 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tour de piste d’honneur, pour un torero particulièrement brillant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for vuelta, with forms such as "uvelta", "veulta", and "vuelat". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "volta", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vuelta, spelled V-U-E-L-T-A.
Definition
- 1Tour de piste d’honneur, pour un torero particulièrement brillant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: uvelta,veulta,vuelat,vuellta,vueltta,vuetla,vuleta,vvuelta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vuelta - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “vuelta”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-U-E-L-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “volta” - see the side-by-side comparison. vuelta vs volta
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.