flasque
\flask\
The verdict
“flasque” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,766
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mou, qui n’a pas de fermeté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flasque · flasque · French
flasque · rank #40,766 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,766
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiori
Nearest frequency peer: fiori (-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 « flasque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- female
female
59,238 corpus weight
- filaire
filaire
59,237 corpus weight
- fiori
fiori
59,236 corpus weight
- flasque
flasque
59,235 corpus weight
- fleuries
fleuries
59,234 corpus weight
- flottait
flottait
59,233 corpus weight
What this shows « flasque » 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 | flasque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \flask\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flasque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around flasque (IPA \flask\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,766 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 flasque, with forms such as "falsque", "fflasque", and "flaqsue". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "fresque", "Franque", "frasques", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 flasque, spelled F-L-A-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Mou, qui n’a pas de fermeté.
- 2Qui est sans caractère ou sans énergie ; qui est dépourvu de force ou de verve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flasque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré sa belle apparence de jaspe, la poitrine du grand coquin était flasque et glacée comme le ventre d’un poisson.
C’était un gros homme, court et tassé, très étrange. Il avait un ventre énorme, qui croulait en bourrelets flasques sur des cuisses presque maigres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falsque
- fflasque
- flaqsue
- flasqeu
- flasqque
- flassque
- flasuqe
- fllasque
- flsaque
- lfasque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flasque - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).