flippant
\fli.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“flippant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,261
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d'un ton frivole, voire impertinent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flippant · flippant · French
flippant · rank #14,261 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,261
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH exprimant
Nearest frequency peer: exprimant (-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 « flippant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- essaies
essaies
85,743 corpus weight
- exotiques
exotiques
85,742 corpus weight
- exprimant
exprimant
85,741 corpus weight
- flippant
flippant
85,740 corpus weight
- fondent
fondent
85,739 corpus weight
- fontaines
fontaines
85,738 corpus weight
What this shows « flippant » 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 | flippant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fli.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flippant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around flippant (IPA \fli.pɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,261 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flippant, with forms such as "fflippant", "filppant", and "flipant". 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, "frappant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flippant, spelled F-L-I-P-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est d'un ton frivole, voire impertinent.
- 2Qui étonne, voire frappe de stupeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flippant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Revue d’Édimbourg, dans son article de novembre 1817, citait ce premier paragraphe in extenso, et qualifiait l'auteur de flippant (léger et un peu impertinent).
Il est écrit dans ce style « flippant » qui depuis quelques années est adopté par plus d'un auteur anglais quand il s'occupe du temps de la reine Victoria. […]. Il faut dire aussi que précisément parce qu'il est amusant, seuls peut-être les initiés en goûteront toutes les allusions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflippant
- filppant
- flipant
- flipapnt
- flippannt
- flippantt
- flippatn
- flippnat
- fllippant
- flpipant
- lfippant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flippant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flippant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).