flingue
\flɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“flingue” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,953
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fusil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flingue · flingue · French
flingue · rank #17,953 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,953
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finiront
Nearest frequency peer: finiront (-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 « flingue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exilé
exilé
82,051 corpus weight
- faussement
faussement
82,050 corpus weight
- finiront
finiront
82,049 corpus weight
- flingue
flingue
82,048 corpus weight
- fluctuations
fluctuations
82,047 corpus weight
- folklore
folklore
82,046 corpus weight
What this shows « flingue » 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 | flingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flingue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around flingue (IPA \flɛ̃ɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,953 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for flingue, with forms such as "fflingue", "filngue", and "flignue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fringe", "fringues", "flinguer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is flingue, spelled F-L-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Fusil.
- 2Pistolet ; arme à feu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bref, me voilà en route avec mes huit grosses valises, mes cinq tubars, le banquier Chauvassut, le noceur Clergerie, l’industriel Montagnoux, le poète Bois-Méard et le petit jeune homme de bonne famille, Gabriel Duplessis-Tournel. J’aurais très bien vu ces cinq cocos-là en uniforme bleu horizon avec un flingue baïonnette au canon, là bas, à Craonne, avec…
Mais on n'a pas tiré, nous ! On n'avait même pas nos flingues, […]. Parole. On a même cru qu'ils nous canardaient, les vaches, on s'est barrés quand on a entendu tirer...
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflingue
- filngue
- flignue
- flingeu
- flinggue
- flinngue
- flinuge
- fllingue
- flnigue
- lfingue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flingue - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flingue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).