fleuret
\flœ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“fleuret” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,880
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épée à lame de section carrée, sans pointe et sans tranchant, dont le bout aplati est garni de peau, et qui constitue une des disciplines de l’escrime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fleuret · fleuret · French
fleuret · rank #42,880 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,880
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flanquée
Nearest frequency peer: flanquée (-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 « fleuret »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- feutres
feutres
57,124 corpus weight
- finissons
finissons
57,123 corpus weight
- flanquée
flanquée
57,122 corpus weight
- fleuret
fleuret
57,121 corpus weight
- flopée
flopée
57,120 corpus weight
- flyer
flyer
57,119 corpus weight
What this shows « fleuret » 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 | fleuret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flœ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fleuret »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fleuret (IPA \flœ.ʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,880 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Épée à lame de section carrée, sans pointe et sans tranchant, dont le bout aplati est garni de peau, et qui constitue une des disciplines de l’escrime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fleuret, with forms such as "feluret", "ffleuret", and "fleruet". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "furet", "fleurs", "fleuve", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fleuret, spelled F-L-E-U-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Épée à lame de section carrée, sans pointe et sans tranchant, dont le bout aplati est garni de peau, et qui constitue une des disciplines de l’escrime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fleuret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] : sur une frégate, en 1829, deux marins s'amusaient à faire des armes ; en ferraillant, un des fleurets se déboutonne et mal paré va traverser les vêtemens, divise la peau et s'arrête dans l’épaisseur du sternum, vers son milieu.
Et il y avait encore le piano, surmonté d’une paire de fleurets et d’un masque d’escrime, sans compter l’énorme table du milieu, une ancienne table à dessiner […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feluret
- ffleuret
- fleruet
- fleuert
- fleurett
- fleurret
- fleurte
- flleuret
- flueret
- lfeuret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fleuret - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).