volante

adj

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The verdict

“volante” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,903
frequency rank, Portuguese
501
“V” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que voa ou tem a facilidade de voar

Corpus desk

Index PT-volante · volante · Portuguese

volante · rank #5,903 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,903
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 501
  • PHOTO-FINISH two

Nearest frequency peer: two (-4 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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “volante”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “volante” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

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).

volante vs volte
71% similar
volante vs valente
71% similar

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

Key facts for volante
PropertyValue
Headwordvolante
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,903
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “volante”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).volantecai aqui:

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “two” (#5,899), “adolescência” (#5,907), “surgimento” (#5,895). Entre 501 lemas com “V”, “volante” fica em #5,903. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around volante, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,903 among 501 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for volante, with forms such as "ovlante", "vloante", and "voalnte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "volte", "valente", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is volante, spelled V-O-L-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    que voa ou tem a facilidade de voar
  2. 2
    que se pode mudar facilmente de um lugar para outro
  3. 3
    que não tem domicílio ou residência certa
  4. 4
    rápido; veloz

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 26 poetas hoje

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ovlante
  • vloante
  • voalnte
  • volanet
  • volannte
  • volantte
  • volatne
  • vollante
  • volnate
  • vvolante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ovlante2vloante2voalnte2volanet2volannte1volantte1volatne2vollante1
Edit distance from "volante"

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "volante"?
"volante" is spelled V-O-L-A-N-T-E.
What does "volante" mean?
As an adjective, "volante" means: que voa ou tem a facilidade de voar
What words are commonly confused with "volante"?
"volante" is commonly confused with "volte", "valente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "volante" come from?
"volante" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list