flexible
\flɛk.sibl\
The verdict
“flexible” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,881. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,881
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se fléchit aisément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flexible · flexible · French
flexible · rank #15,881 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,881
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flots
Nearest frequency peer: flots (+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 « flexible »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faure
faure
84,124 corpus weight
- fauve
fauve
84,123 corpus weight
- fiançailles
fiançailles
84,122 corpus weight
- flexible
flexible
84,120 corpus weight
- flots
flots
84,119 corpus weight
- fractures
fractures
84,118 corpus weight
What this shows « flexible » 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 | flexible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \flɛk.sibl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flexible »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around flexible (IPA \flɛk.sibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,881 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 flexible, with forms such as "felxible", "fflexible", and "fleixble". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "flexibles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is flexible, spelled F-L-E-X-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se fléchit aisément.
- 2Souple.
- 3Qualifie une voix qui passe facilement d’un ton à un autre.
- 4Malléable.
- 5Qualifie ce qui est facile à réaménager, à reconfigurer ou à modifier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flexible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chaume flexible des graminées de nos prairies, dont les épis légers ne s'élèvent que peu au-dessus du sol et que le moindre souffle du zéphyr suffit à bercer mollement , est remplacé dans certaines contrées de l'Asie par les tiges de bambous, riches en nœuds et d'un diamètre si considérable, […].
Les cordons ovigères ressemblent à de flexibles tubes de cristal, que garniraient de petites perles noires.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- felxible
- fflexible
- fleixble
- flexbile
- flexibble
- flexibel
- flexiblle
- flexilbe
- flexxible
- fllexible
- flxeible
- lfexible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flexible - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).