FlopvsfrohWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Flop is a noun, froh is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Flop” is a noun and “froh” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#22,724
“Flop” frequency rank
#1,386
“froh” frequency rank
24110
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Flop froh
Definition Misserfolg; etwas, das nicht gelungen ist voller Freude sein

Where the eye mixes Flop and froh

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
Flop
4 ch
froh

Visual trap between Flop and froh

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Flop is [flɔp] while froh is [fʁoː]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24110, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Flop is recorded at frequency rank #22,724, classified as anoun, pronounced [flɔp]. froh is at rank #1,386, tagged as anadj, pronounced [fʁoː].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 24110, this pair ranks #1,852,238 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Flop vs froh

Shared letters: fo. Private to "Flop": lp. Private to "froh": hr.

"Flop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "froh" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Flopfflop · fllop · flopp · flpo · folp · lfop
  • frohffroh · forh · frho · frohh · frroh · rfoh

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Flop" for "froh" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Flop" is a noun and "froh" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Flop" or "froh"?
"froh" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,386 in our German list, against #22,724 for "Flop". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "Flop" and "froh" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Flop" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "froh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,852,238 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Flop" and "froh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Flop vs Fon". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,852,238 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list