flamenco

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for flamenco is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fla.mɛn.ko\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,955 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Genre musical à base de chant et type de danse populaires andalous.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for flamenco, with forms such as "falmenco", "fflamenco", and "flaemnco". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is flamenco, spelled F-L-A-M-E-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.