flipper
\fli.pœʁ\
The verdict
“flipper” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,586
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu d’arcade à monnayeur, dont le principe est de marquer des points en dirigeant une ou plusieurs billes métalliques sur un plateau de jeu séparé du joueur par une vitre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flipper · flipper · French
flipper · rank #11,586 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,586
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH financements
Nearest frequency peer: financements (-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 « flipper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fiabilité
fiabilité
88,418 corpus weight
- fictif
fictif
88,417 corpus weight
- financements
financements
88,416 corpus weight
- flipper
flipper
88,415 corpus weight
- Florian
Florian
88,414 corpus weight
- fonctionnal…
fonctionnalités
88,413 corpus weight
What this shows « flipper » 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 | flipper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fli.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flipper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around flipper (IPA \fli.pœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,586 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jeu d’arcade à monnayeur, dont le principe est de marquer des points en dirigeant une ou plusieurs billes métalliques sur un plateau de jeu séparé du joueur par une vitre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for flipper, with forms such as "fflipper", "filpper", and "flipepr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "frapper", "flirter", "flippe", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flipper, spelled F-L-I-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jeu d’arcade à monnayeur, dont le principe est de marquer des points en dirigeant une ou plusieurs billes métalliques sur un plateau de jeu séparé du joueur par une vitre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flipper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’étais tranquille, j’étais pénard Accoudé au flipper Le type est entré dans le bar A commandé un jambon beurre.
…monter en ville acheter du shampoing et un Petit Classique Larousse, en passant les yeux baissés devant le café où les garçons jouent au flipper.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflipper
- filpper
- flipepr
- fliper
- flipperr
- flippre
- fllipper
- flpiper
- lfipper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flipper - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).