flatterie
\fla.tʁi\
The verdict
“flatterie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,900
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Louange fausse ou exagérée, donnée dans le dessein de plaire, de séduire, d’exploiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flatterie · flatterie · French
flatterie · rank #47,900 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,900
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiotte
Nearest frequency peer: fiotte (-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 « flatterie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fibrose
fibrose
52,104 corpus weight
- Fink
Fink
52,103 corpus weight
- fiotte
fiotte
52,102 corpus weight
- flatterie
flatterie
52,101 corpus weight
- foies
foies
52,100 corpus weight
- fossettes
fossettes
52,099 corpus weight
What this shows « flatterie » 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 | flatterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flatterie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around flatterie (IPA \fla.tʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,900 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Louange fausse ou exagérée, donnée dans le dessein de plaire, de séduire, d’exploiter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flatterie, with forms such as "faltterie", "fflatterie", and "flaterie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "flatteuse", "flatter", "flattée", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is flatterie, spelled F-L-A-T-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Louange fausse ou exagérée, donnée dans le dessein de plaire, de séduire, d’exploiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flatterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le grand-père prit le marmot, il le baisa, le trouva délicieux et ravissant ; il lui parla le parler des nourrices, prophétisa que ce poupard deviendrait plus grand que lui, glissa des flatteries à l’adresse de son fils Hulot, et rendit l’enfant à la grosse Normande chargée de le tenir.
Malgré sa raison ferme et droite, le directeur général avait un faible qui se rencontre chez beaucoup d’hommes de mérite. Il aimait la louange, et même la flatterie ; (…)
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- faltterie
- fflatterie
- flaterie
- flatetrie
- flatteire
- flatterei
- flatterrie
- flattreie
- fllatterie
- fltaterie
- lfatterie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flatterie - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).