flacons
\fla.kɔ̃\
The verdict
“flacons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,007. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,007
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flacon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flacons · flacons · French
flacons · rank #26,007 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,007
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferraille
Nearest frequency peer: ferraille (-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 « flacons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fauves
fauves
73,997 corpus weight
- ferraille
ferraille
73,995 corpus weight
- flacons
flacons
73,994 corpus weight
- flinguer
flinguer
73,993 corpus weight
- forteresses
forteresses
73,992 corpus weight
- fourbe
fourbe
73,991 corpus weight
What this shows « flacons » 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 | flacons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flacons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around flacons (IPA \fla.kɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,007 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de flacon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flacons, with forms such as "falcons", "fflacons", and "flaccons". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "flocon", "flocons", "façon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is flacons, spelled F-L-A-C-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flacon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flacons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son séjour se termina à Beauté-sur-Marne ; Charles IV en fut si enchanté qu’il s’y déclara guéri de sa goutte ; on y fit de somptueux échanges de cadeaux : coupes d’or garnies de pierreries et d’émaux champlevés, flacons, aiguières, hanaps d’or et gobelets ; jusqu’au moment où, à la veille de se faire leurs adieux, l’empereur donne au roi un rubis et un d…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falcons
- fflacons
- flaccons
- flacnos
- flaconns
- flaconss
- flacosn
- flaocns
- flcaons
- fllacons
- lfacons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flacons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).