flatte
\flat\
The verdict
“flatte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,497
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excrément de bovin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flatte · flatte · French
flatte · rank #31,497 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,497
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Firmin
Nearest frequency peer: Firmin (-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 « flatte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- finirez
finirez
68,507 corpus weight
- finitions
finitions
68,506 corpus weight
- Firmin
Firmin
68,505 corpus weight
- flatte
flatte
68,504 corpus weight
- flexion
flexion
68,503 corpus weight
- fondus
fondus
68,502 corpus weight
What this shows « flatte » 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 | flatte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flatte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around flatte (IPA \flat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,497 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Excrément de bovin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for flatte, with forms such as "faltte", "fflatte", and "flate". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "flute", "flotte", "frotte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 flatte, spelled F-L-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Excrément de bovin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flatte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chemin était rempli de flattes.
Moi les flattes, si y en a de trop, de temps en temps, quand il pleut, je vais racler, mais bon… Je peux rien faire ! Je vais pas leur mettre des sacs, hein !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- faltte
- fflatte
- flate
- flatet
- fllatte
- fltate
- lfatte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flatte - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).