fleurs

/\flœʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,770

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

fleurs is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de fleur. Pronounced \flœʁ\. It ranks #1,770 in French word frequency. Often confused with fours and flous.

Key facts for fleurs
PropertyValue
Headwordfleurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\flœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,770
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fleurs in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fleurs is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,770 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de fleur.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for fleurs, with forms such as "felurs", "ffleurs", and "flerus". 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, "fours", "flous", "flour", 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 fleurs, spelled F-L-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de fleur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: felurs,ffleurs,flerus,fleurrs,fleurss,fleusr,flleurs,fluers,lfeurs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fleurs

Misspelling Variants of "fleurs"

felurs6ffleurs7flerus6fleurrs7fleurss7fleusr6flleurs7fluers6
Misspelling Variants of "fleurs"

Frequency rank: #1,770 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fleurs"?
"fleurs" is spelled F-L-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \flœʁ\.
What does "fleurs" mean?
As a noun, "fleurs" means: Pluriel de fleur.
What words are commonly confused with "fleurs"?
"fleurs" is commonly confused with "fours", "flous", "flour". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fleurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fleurs" is \flœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fleurs" come from?
"fleurs" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.