flirt
\flœʁt\
The verdict
“flirt” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,941
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cour amoureuse, généralement avec une connotation sexuelle, mais de façon légère et généralement sans but de relation à long terme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flirt · flirt · French
flirt · rank #21,941 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,941
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finissait
Nearest frequency peer: finissait (-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 « flirt »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exquis
exquis
78,063 corpus weight
- finissait
finissait
78,061 corpus weight
- flirt
flirt
78,060 corpus weight
- foncières
foncières
78,059 corpus weight
- foncée
foncée
78,058 corpus weight
- fonderie
fonderie
78,057 corpus weight
What this shows « flirt » 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 | flirt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flœʁt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flirt »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around flirt (IPA \flœʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,941 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for flirt, with forms such as "fflirt", "filrt", and "flirrt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fort", "fuir", "fuit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 flirt, spelled F-L-I-R-T.
Definition
- 1Cour amoureuse, généralement avec une connotation sexuelle, mais de façon légère et généralement sans but de relation à long terme.
- 2Relation plus ou moins suivie.
- 3Personne avec qui on fait la cour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flirt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui faisait beaucoup la cour, sans qu'elle y prît plaisir. Elle n'avait pas le goût du flirt et n'aimait pas les déclarations.
A leur âge, dans notre pays, les grand’mères se préparent à mourir pieusement et les jeunes filles ne pensent qu'au flirt.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflirt
- filrt
- flirrt
- flirtt
- flitr
- fllirt
- flrit
- lfirt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flirt - 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 "flirt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).