flacon
\fla.kɔ̃\
The verdict
“flacon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,366
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouteille de dimensions réduites.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flacon · flacon · French
flacon · rank #16,366 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,366
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH floraison
Nearest frequency peer: floraison (+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 « flacon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fie
fie
83,638 corpus weight
- figuré
figuré
83,637 corpus weight
- flacon
flacon
83,635 corpus weight
- floraison
floraison
83,634 corpus weight
- flow
flow
83,633 corpus weight
- fonctionnant
fonctionnant
83,632 corpus weight
What this shows « flacon » 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 | flacon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flacon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around flacon (IPA \fla.kɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,366 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bouteille de dimensions réduites.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for flacon, with forms such as "fflacon", "flaccon", and "flacno". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "flan", "flocon", "flocons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flacon, spelled F-L-A-C-O-N.
Definition
- 1Bouteille de dimensions réduites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flacon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle achetait les onguents, des pots de fard, des crayons, qui traînaient sur tous les meubles, avec des houppettes de poudre de riz et des flacons d’odeur. Ses journées, elle les passait, devant sa glace, à se maquiller, à se contempler.
Sur le buffet, rien qu’une chaîne hi-fi et un flacon d’ambre solaire entamé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflacon
- flaccon
- flacno
- flaconn
- flaocn
- flcaon
- fllacon
- lfacon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flacon - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).