fle
\ˈfle\
The verdict
“fle” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,300) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,300
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fle · fle · French
fle · rank #39,300 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,300
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finançant
Nearest frequency peer: finançant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fle”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- feuilleter
feuilleter
60,704 corpus weight
- fiacre
fiacre
60,703 corpus weight
- finançant
finançant
60,702 corpus weight
- fle
fle
60,701 corpus weight
- flowers
flowers
60,700 corpus weight
- focalisation
focalisation
60,699 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fle” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈfle\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “fle” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fle is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈfle\. Frequency #39,300 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Dormir.".
fle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fle, spelled F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Dormir.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "fle" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "FN". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #39,300 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.