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Volapuk

Syllables: Vo·la·puk

Volapuk is the alternative spelling of Volapük.

Meaning of Volapük

Proper noun

Volapük

  1. An artificial (or constructed) language created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
    • ...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime.1897 April, A. F. B. Crofton, “The Language of Crime”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 50, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 834

Questions about Volapuk

What is Volapuk the alternative spelling of?
Volapuk is the alternative spelling of Volapük.

Words near Volapuk in the dictionary

  1. volant pieces
  2. volante
  3. volantes
  4. volapié
  5. volapiés
  6. Volapuk
  7. Volapük
  8. Volapükism
  9. Volapükist
  10. Volapükists
  11. volar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Volapuk (page history and authors); Volapük (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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