flaque
\flak\
The verdict
“flaque” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,437
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite étendue d’un liquide accumulé sur une surface plane ou qui n’est pas parfaitement nivelée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flaque · flaque · French
flaque · rank #27,437 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,437
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feuillets
Nearest frequency peer: feuillets (-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 « flaque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- featuring
featuring
72,567 corpus weight
- fendu
fendu
72,566 corpus weight
- feuillets
feuillets
72,565 corpus weight
- flaque
flaque
72,564 corpus weight
- florissante
florissante
72,563 corpus weight
- foireux
foireux
72,562 corpus weight
What this shows « flaque » 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 | flaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flaque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around flaque (IPA \flak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,437 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for flaque, with forms such as "falque", "fflaque", and "flaqeu". 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. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "floue", "flatte", "flaques", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flaque, spelled F-L-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Petite étendue d’un liquide accumulé sur une surface plane ou qui n’est pas parfaitement nivelée.
- 2Zone dont l’aspect est différent de celui des alentours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une flaque d’huile ; une flaque de sang.
Bien que, par intervalles, de brèves et pâles soleillées courussent sur les chemins défoncés, sur les prairies semées de flaques miroitantes, on pressentait que l'accalmie serait de peu de durée, et que l'averse recommencerait avant la fin du jour.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falque
- fflaque
- flaqeu
- flaqque
- flauqe
- fllaque
- flqaue
- lfaque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flaque - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).