fleuron
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,171
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
fleuron is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dans les inflorescences des plantes de la famille des composées ou astéracées (capitules), chacune des petites fleurs dont la réunion sur un seul involucre de bractées semble former une fleur unique. Pronounced \flø.ʁɔ̃\. Often confused with fleurs and Fleury.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleuron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flø.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fleuron is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flø.ʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,171 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fleuron, with forms such as "feluron", "ffleuron", and "fleruon". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "fleurs", "Fleury", "flexion", 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 fleuron, spelled F-L-E-U-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans les inflorescences des plantes de la famille des composées ou astéracées (capitules), chacune des petites fleurs dont la réunion sur un seul involucre de bractées semble former une fleur unique.
- 2Représentation de fleur servant d’ornement.
- 3Ornement, souvent un motif végétal, qui termine certaines parties des bâtiments de style gothique.
- 4Ornement que l’on met quelquefois à la fin des divisions d’un ouvrage ou sur le titre.
- 5Une des principales prérogatives qu’ait un prince, ou un de ses plus grands revenus, ou une de ses meilleures provinces.
- 6Ce qu’une personne a de plus précieux.
- 7Croissant de pâte feuilletée qui accompagne certains plats en sauce, notamment de poisson.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: feluron,ffleuron,fleruon,fleuorn,fleurno,fleuronn,fleurron,flleuron,flueron,lfeuron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fleuron
Misspelling Variants of "fleuron"
Frequency rank: #28,171 in French
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