fléchir
\fle.ʃiʁ\
The verdict
“fléchir” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,812
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire ployer, courber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flechir · fléchir · French
fléchir · rank #38,812 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,812
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluctuation
Nearest frequency peer: fluctuation (-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 « fléchir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fixa
fixa
61,192 corpus weight
- fixez
fixez
61,191 corpus weight
- fluctuation
fluctuation
61,190 corpus weight
- fléchir
fléchir
61,189 corpus weight
- forcera
forcera
61,188 corpus weight
- forcing
forcing
61,187 corpus weight
What this shows « fléchir » 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 | fléchir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fle.ʃiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fléchir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fléchir (IPA \fle.ʃiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,812 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fléchir, with forms such as "ffléchir", "flcéhir", and "flechir". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fleurir", "fletcher", "flèche", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fléchir, spelled F-L-É-C-H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Faire ployer, courber.
- 2Amener à compassion ; toucher de pitié ; attendrir ; adoucir.
- 3Plier ; se courber.
- 4Se soumettre, s’abaisser.
- 5Cesser de persister dans des sentiments de dureté ou de fermeté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fléchir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fléchir la tige d’un arbre.
Fléchir quelque partie du corps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffléchir
- flcéhir
- flechir
- flléchir
- flécchir
- fléchhir
- fléchirr
- fléchri
- flécihr
- fléhcir
- félchir
- lféchir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fléchir - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fléchir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).