flambant
\flɑ̃.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“flambant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,962
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combustible gras à forte teneur en matières volatiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flambant · flambant · French
flambant · rank #31,962 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,962
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH figurez
Nearest frequency peer: figurez (-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 « flambant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fatidique
fatidique
68,042 corpus weight
- fermait
fermait
68,041 corpus weight
- figurez
figurez
68,040 corpus weight
- flambant
flambant
68,039 corpus weight
- flashback
flashback
68,038 corpus weight
- flashs
flashs
68,037 corpus weight
What this shows « flambant » 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 | flambant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ̃.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flambant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around flambant (IPA \flɑ̃.bɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Combustible gras à forte teneur en matières volatiles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for flambant, with forms such as "falmbant", "fflambant", and "flabmant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "flamboyant", "flamand", "flagrant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flambant, spelled F-L-A-M-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Combustible gras à forte teneur en matières volatiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flambant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut remplir les sacs de charbon de cinquante kilos sur la bascule en tenant compte des différentes qualités : anthracite, flambant, tête de moineau, boulet, une quinzaine de variétés au moins, et charger la voiture à bras.
Le marché charbonnier européen fait précisément face à un excès de la production en flambant et une disette en celle de charbon à coke.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falmbant
- fflambant
- flabmant
- flamabnt
- flambannt
- flambantt
- flambatn
- flambbant
- flambnat
- flammbant
- fllambant
- flmabant
- lfambant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flambant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).