Flaubert
\flo.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“Flaubert” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,214
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, notamment représenté par l'écrivain français Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880).
Corpus desk
Index FR-flaubert · Flaubert · French
Flaubert · rank #23,214 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,214
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flan
Nearest frequency peer: flan (-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 « Flaubert »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fillettes
fillettes
76,790 corpus weight
- fiston
fiston
76,789 corpus weight
- flan
flan
76,788 corpus weight
- Flaubert
Flaubert
76,787 corpus weight
- fol
fol
76,786 corpus weight
- fortunés
fortunés
76,785 corpus weight
What this shows « Flaubert » 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 | Flaubert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \flo.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Flaubert »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Flaubert (IPA \flo.bɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,214 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, notamment représenté par l'écrivain français Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Flaubert, with forms such as "falubert", "fflaubert", and "flabuert". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "flamber", 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 Flaubert, spelled F-L-A-U-B-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, notamment représenté par l'écrivain français Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Flaubert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il tenait sous son talon de feutre Chévremont écumant. Celui-ci, un géant roux et congestionné, avec de longues moustaches tombantes, à la gauloise, et des yeux bleus en boules, qui s’injectaient dans les discussions orageuses, ressemblait aux portraits que l’on a de Gustave Flaubert. Boussuge en avait fait, le premier, la remarque, et la consacrait en ap…
J’ai tout appris des réécritures obsessives de Madame Bovary par Flaubert…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falubert
- fflaubert
- flabuert
- flaubbert
- flauberrt
- flaubertt
- flaubetr
- flaubret
- flauebrt
- fllaubert
- fluabert
- lfaubert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Flaubert - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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