Flores
"flores" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Flores” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,601
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An island of the Azores autonomous region, Portugal, in the North Atlantic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flores · Flores · English
Flores · rank #19,601 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,601
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH FLOPS
Nearest frequency peer: FLOPS (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Flores”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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
- fright
fright
80,398 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Flores” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Flores |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Flores” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Flores, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,601 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Flores, with forms such as "fflores", "fllores", and "floers". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foes", "forms", "flows", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Portuguese Flores, from flores (“flowers”). The correct English form is Flores, spelled F-L-O-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1An island of the Azores autonomous region, Portugal, in the North Atlantic.
- 2An island of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, located east of Java.
Etymology
From Portuguese Flores, from flores (“flowers”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflores
- fllores
- floers
- floress
- florres
- florse
- flroes
- folres
- lfores
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Flores - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Flores", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "Flores" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "foes". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #19,601 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "F" letter cohort. F–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.