volte

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for volte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɔw.t͡ʃi/ [ˈvɔʊ̯.t͡ʃi]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,279 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "jogada de baralho na qual o parceiro, que quer fazer este jogo, volta a primeira carta do baralho e toma por trunfo o naipe que ela indicar, comprando no baralho o número de cartas que lhe faltar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for volte, with forms such as "ovlte", "vlote", and "volet". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "voto", "vulto", "volume", and more, 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 volte, spelled V-O-L-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.