effleure
\e.flœʁ\
The verdict
“effleure” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,850
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de effleurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effleure · effleure · French
effleure · rank #42,850 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,850
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ek
Nearest frequency peer: ek (+1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « effleure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- désignations
désignations
57,155 corpus weight
- détruis
détruis
57,154 corpus weight
- déviations
déviations
57,153 corpus weight
- effleure
effleure
57,151 corpus weight
- ek
ek
57,150 corpus weight
- emotion
emotion
57,147 corpus weight
What this shows « effleure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | effleure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.flœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « effleure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around effleure (IPA \e.flœʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,850 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for effleure, with forms such as "effelure", "efflerue", and "effleuer". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "enflure", "effleurer", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is effleure, spelled E-F-F-L-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de effleurer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de effleurer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de effleurer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de effleurer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de effleurer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- effelure
- efflerue
- effleuer
- efflleure
- effluere
- efleure
- eflfeure
- fefleure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effleure - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "effleure", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).