FLOPS
"flops" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“FLOPS” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,600
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One flop per second.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flops · FLOPS · English
FLOPS · rank #19,600 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Flo
Nearest frequency peer: Flo (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “FLOPS”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fifteenth
fifteenth
80,404 corpus weight
- flares
flares
80,403 corpus weight
- Flo
Flo
80,402 corpus weight
- FLOPS
FLOPS
80,401 corpus weight
- Flores
Flores
80,400 corpus weight
- footed
footed
80,399 corpus weight
What this shows “FLOPS” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FLOPS |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “FLOPS”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around FLOPS, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,600 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "One flop per second.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for FLOPS, with forms such as "fflops", "fllops", and "flopps". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "flow", "foes", "FOSS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: An acronym for floating-point operations per second. The correct English form is FLOPS, spelled F-L-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1One flop per second.
Etymology
An acronym for floating-point operations per second.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflops
- fllops
- flopps
- flopss
- flosp
- flpos
- folps
- lfops
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of FLOPS - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "FLOPS", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).