flanelle
\fla.nɛl\
The verdict
“flanelle” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,441. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,441
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe de laine peignée ou cardée, à tissu peu serré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flanelle · flanelle · French
flanelle · rank #43,441 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,441
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fixement
Nearest frequency peer: fixement (-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 « flanelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- filou
filou
56,563 corpus weight
- filtrant
filtrant
56,562 corpus weight
- fixement
fixement
56,561 corpus weight
- flanelle
flanelle
56,560 corpus weight
- florentine
florentine
56,559 corpus weight
- flotteur
flotteur
56,558 corpus weight
What this shows « flanelle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flanelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flanelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around flanelle (IPA \fla.nɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,441 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for flanelle, with forms such as "falnelle", "fflanelle", and "flaenlle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flanelle, spelled F-L-A-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Étoffe de laine peignée ou cardée, à tissu peu serré.
- 2Vêtement de flanelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flanelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les femmes, qui sont de taille moyenne et plutôt trapues, portent une robe en vadmel, sorte de flanelle tissée avec la laine qu'elles-mêmes ont cardée et filée.
Chez Gap, je voudrais ce pantalon de flanelle à la Lauren Bacall, taille extra-small.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falnelle
- fflanelle
- flaenlle
- flanele
- flanelel
- flanlele
- flannelle
- fllanelle
- flnaelle
- lfanelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flanelle - 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 "flanelle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).