flambée
\flɑ̃.be\
The verdict
“flambée” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,170
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feu de bourrée, de paille, de petit bois qui flambe et ne dure pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flambee · flambée · French
flambée · rank #28,170 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,170
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finaux
Nearest frequency peer: finaux (-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 « flambée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fatigant
fatigant
71,835 corpus weight
- fest
fest
71,834 corpus weight
- finaux
finaux
71,832 corpus weight
- flambée
flambée
71,831 corpus weight
- fleuron
fleuron
71,830 corpus weight
- flottants
flottants
71,828 corpus weight
What this shows « flambée » 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 | flambée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ̃.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flambée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around flambée (IPA \flɑ̃.be\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,170 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flambée, with forms such as "falmbée", "fflambée", and "flabmée". 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, "flame", "flamme", "flammes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is flambée, spelled F-L-A-M-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Feu de bourrée, de paille, de petit bois qui flambe et ne dure pas.
- 2Explosion soudaine et brève de sentiments violents.
- 3Très grosse et soudaine augmentation.
- 4Recueil de chansons, bréviaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flambée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pourquoi la meilleure part de notre mémoire est hors de nous, dans un souffle pluvieux, dans l’odeur de renfermé d’une chambre ou dans l’odeur d’une première flambée, partout où nous retrouvons de nous-même ce que notre intelligence, n’en ayant pas l’emploi, avait dédaigné, la dernière réserve du passé, la meilleure, celle qui, quand toutes nos larm…
Mais il fallait bien annoncer mon départ à Thérèse. Elle vint dans la bibliothèque avec une brassée de bois pour allumer un petit feu, « une flambée », disait-elle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falmbée
- fflambée
- flabmée
- flambbée
- flambee
- flambeé
- flammbée
- flamébe
- fllambée
- flmabée
- lfambée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flambée - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flambée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).