flatteries
\flat.ʁi\
The verdict
“flatteries” is uncommon French (frequency #65,948 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,948
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flatterie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flatteries · flatteries · French
flatteries · rank #65,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,948
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fintech
Nearest frequency peer: fintech (-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 « flatteries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filion
filion
34,055 corpus weight
- fintech
fintech
34,054 corpus weight
- flatteries
flatteries
34,053 corpus weight
- fluctuante
fluctuante
34,052 corpus weight
- foisonnant
foisonnant
34,051 corpus weight
- folichon
folichon
34,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flatteries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flatteries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flat.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flatteries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flatteries is uncommon French at frequency #65,948 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flat.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de flatterie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for flatteries, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flatteries, spelled F-L-A-T-T-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flatterie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flatteries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pures, fières de leur royauté virginale, de leur couronne d’inconquis, ne comprirent pas que suivre les Regards doublerait au lieu de défleuronner leur diadème ; elles avaient, d’ailleurs, peur des franchises, et marchaient la tête haute d’orgueil, sans voir les bas pièges du Mensonge, lequel les enveloppait de flatteries, d’embûches, et les réduisait…
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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