fleur
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,535
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fleur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organe reproducteur des angiospermes (ou « plantes à fleurs »), constitué des organes de la reproduction sexuée (étamines, carpelles) et de leurs enveloppes protectrices (sépales, pétales). Pronounced \flœʁ\. It ranks #3,535 in French word frequency. Often confused with für and flux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fleur is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,535 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fleur, with forms such as "felur", "ffleur", and "fleru". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "für", "flux", "four", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fleur, spelled F-L-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organe reproducteur des angiospermes (ou « plantes à fleurs »), constitué des organes de la reproduction sexuée (étamines, carpelles) et de leurs enveloppes protectrices (sépales, pétales).
- 2La plante à fleurs elle-même.
- 3Motif décoratif qui imite ces fleurs.
- 4Service rendu aimablement par une personne à une autre.
- 5Le meilleur de quelque chose.
- 6Farine.
- 7Virginité d’une femme.
- 8Vulve.
- 9Substances à l’état de pureté ou d’extrême division, produites par sublimation. → voir fleur de sel → voir fleur de soufre
- 10Surface d’une chose. (Presque exclusivement dans les locutions ci-dessous.)
- 11Biofilm (parfois désirable, souvent non) se formant à la surface de boissons fermentées, notamment le vin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: felur,ffleur,fleru,fleurr,flleur,fluer,lfeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fleur
Misspelling Variants of "fleur"
Frequency rank: #3,535 in French
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