fiotte
\fjɔt\
The verdict
“fiotte” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,899
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme homosexuel ou efféminé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiotte · fiotte · French
fiotte · rank #47,899 · 6 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,899
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fink
Nearest frequency peer: Fink (-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 « fiotte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- FFS
FFS
52,105 corpus weight
- fibrose
fibrose
52,104 corpus weight
- Fink
Fink
52,103 corpus weight
- fiotte
fiotte
52,102 corpus weight
- flatterie
flatterie
52,101 corpus weight
- foies
foies
52,100 corpus weight
What this shows « fiotte » 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 | fiotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fjɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fiotte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around fiotte (IPA \fjɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,899 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiotte, with forms such as "ffiotte", "fiote", and "fiotet". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "forte", "fonte", "foute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fiotte, spelled F-I-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Homme homosexuel ou efféminé.
- 2Terme d’injure méprisant pour un homme.
- 3Homme lâche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fiotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une telle masculinité catholique, bourgeoise et traditionnelle, se construit bien évidemment par le rejet des « fiottes » ([…]) – l’homosexualité étant peu verbalisable autrement que par son renvoi systématique à l’efféminement – mais également par la suspicion vis-à-vis d’une masculinité construite uniquement sur le capital corporel, étiquetée « classe p…
— En clair, vous pensez que Rosselli est une fiotte ? Nimmo se surprit à sourire. — Une fiotte ? Non...Les rares fois où je l'ai vu en public, il avait toujours l'air d'avoir des tas de filles avec lui. Il a eu une liaison avec une actrice, je crois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffiotte
- fiote
- fiotet
- fitote
- foitte
- ifotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiotte - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).