flancs
\flɑ̃\
The verdict
“flancs” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,132
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flanc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flancs · flancs · French
flancs · rank #16,132 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,132
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH figurines
Nearest frequency peer: figurines (-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 « flancs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fable
fable
83,872 corpus weight
- fertile
fertile
83,871 corpus weight
- figurines
figurines
83,870 corpus weight
- flancs
flancs
83,869 corpus weight
- flandres
flandres
83,868 corpus weight
- foires
foires
83,867 corpus weight
What this shows « flancs » 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 | flancs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flancs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around flancs (IPA \flɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,132 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de flanc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for flancs, with forms such as "falncs", "fflancs", and "flacns". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Franc", "flics", "Frans", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is flancs, spelled F-L-A-N-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flanc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flancs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il importe donc que celles-ci puissent ouvrir le feu rapidement sur des chars qui auraient progressé sur leurs flancs ou même les attaqueraient par l’arrière sans avoir à débêcher et à changer leur affût de place, quelque rapide que puisse être cette manœuvre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falncs
- fflancs
- flacns
- flanccs
- flancss
- flanncs
- flansc
- fllancs
- flnacs
- lfancs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flancs - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).