volante

adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,903

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

volante is anPortugueseadj. It means: que voa ou tem a facilidade de voar It ranks #5,903 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with volte and valente.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of volante in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for volante is 7 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #5,903 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for volante, with forms such as "ovlante", "vloante", and "voalnte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "volte", "valente", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is volante, spelled V-O-L-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovlante,vloante,voalnte,volanet,volannte,volantte,volatne,vollante,volnate,vvolante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for volante

Misspelling Variants of "volante"

ovlante7vloante7voalnte7volanet7volannte8volantte8volatne7vollante8
Misspelling Variants of "volante"

Frequency rank: #5,903 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "volante"?
"volante" is spelled V-O-L-A-N-T-E.
What does "volante" mean?
As an adj, "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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.