flote
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,710
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
flote is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de flotar Pronounced [ˈflot̪e]. Often confused with foto and flow.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈflot̪e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for flote is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈflot̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,710 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for flote, with forms such as "fflote", "fllote", and "floet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foto", "flow", "fome", 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 Spanish form is flote, spelled F-L-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de flotar
- 2La marea entrante.
- 3Acción o efecto de frotar
- 4Método de natación que consiste en que cuando un nadador está echado de espaldas con los pies estirados hacia fuera, viene otro que le coge por los pies y le empuja hacia delante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fflote,fllote,floet,flotte,fltoe,folte,lfote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flote
Misspelling Variants of "flote"
Frequency rank: #17,710 in Spanish
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