flammes
\flam\
The verdict
“flammes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,868. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,868
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flamme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flammes · flammes · French
flammes · rank #5,868 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,868
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foire
Nearest frequency peer: foire (+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 « flammes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enregistrer
enregistrer
94,138 corpus weight
- flammes
flammes
94,133 corpus weight
- foire
foire
94,132 corpus weight
- fun
fun
94,131 corpus weight
- good
good
94,130 corpus weight
- honnêtement
honnêtement
94,129 corpus weight
What this shows « flammes » 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 | flammes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flam\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flammes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around flammes (IPA \flam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,868 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de flamme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for flammes, with forms such as "falmmes", "fflammes", and "flamems". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "flemme", "flaques", "flame", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is flammes, spelled F-L-A-M-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flamme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flammes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien que les fatigues des précédentes chorégraphies l’eussent rendue haletante et que, sur son corps tanagréen, ruisselassent, ainsi que sur une rose jaune les perles matinales, de petites gouttelettes de sueur, saltatrix presque nue maintenant, en proie aux exigences souveraines de Vénus, encore qu’ignorante des voluptés perverses autant que de la subtil…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falmmes
- fflammes
- flamems
- flames
- flammess
- flammse
- fllammes
- flmames
- lfammes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flammes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).