flote
Spanish, noun
flote is spelled F-L-O-T-E (5 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 17,619th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flote is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “floatation (action and effect of floating)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of flotar. With an accent, floté is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of flotar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de flotar”.
What does flote mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefloatation (action and effect of floating)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of flotar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de flotar 2. La marea entrante. 3. Acción o efecto de frotar 4. Método 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.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of flote
- flotes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to flote
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flote in Spanish?
flote appears 2.9 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).