flats
\fla\
The verdict
“flats” is uncommon French (frequency #74,003 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,003
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de flat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flats · flats · French
flats · rank #74,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,003
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH floqué
Nearest frequency peer: floqué (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flats »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Finland
Finland
26,001 corpus weight
- fixais
fixais
26,000 corpus weight
- flats
flats
25,998 corpus weight
- floqué
floqué
25,997 corpus weight
- fluctuent
fluctuent
25,996 corpus weight
- foreurs
foreurs
25,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flats » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fla\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flats » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flats is uncommon French at frequency #74,003 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fla\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de flat.".
flats has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 flats, spelled F-L-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de flat.
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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