flamenco
\fla.mɛn.ko\
The verdict
“flamenco” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,955
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical à base de chant et type de danse populaires andalous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flamenco · flamenco · French
flamenco · rank #28,955 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,955
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filmées
Nearest frequency peer: filmées (-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 « flamenco »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- figurants
figurants
71,048 corpus weight
- filmées
filmées
71,047 corpus weight
- flamenco
flamenco
71,046 corpus weight
- fluviale
fluviale
71,045 corpus weight
- forza
forza
71,044 corpus weight
- framework
framework
71,043 corpus weight
What this shows « flamenco » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamenco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.mɛn.ko\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flamenco »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around flamenco (IPA \fla.mɛn.ko\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,955 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Genre musical à base de chant et type de danse populaires andalous.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for flamenco, with forms such as "falmenco", "fflamenco", and "flaemnco". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 flamenco, spelled F-L-A-M-E-N-C-O.
Definition
- 1Genre musical à base de chant et type de danse populaires andalous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flamenco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il voyageait dans les régions les moins fréquentées de l’Espagne, à la recherche d’anciennes musiques ibériques, mélopées de faucheurs, de guardianes ou de promeneurs solitaires, plus vieilles même que la conquête par Rome et les chants d’église, bouts de complaintes tziganes venues d’Asie centrale avec la tribu, bien avant le flamenco de la Renaissance o…
Les deux enfants sont inséparables et nourrissent une passion commune: la danse, et bientôt le flamenco, très à la mode dans les années 1930.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falmenco
- fflamenco
- flaemnco
- flamecno
- flamencco
- flamennco
- flamenoc
- flammenco
- flamneco
- fllamenco
- flmaenco
- lfamenco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flamenco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).