flirter
\flœʁ.te\
The verdict
“flirter” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,861
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’adonner au flirt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flirter · flirter · French
flirter · rank #22,861 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,861
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filtrage
Nearest frequency peer: filtrage (-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 « flirter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- festif
festif
77,143 corpus weight
- feuillet
feuillet
77,142 corpus weight
- filtrage
filtrage
77,141 corpus weight
- flirter
flirter
77,140 corpus weight
- florentin
florentin
77,139 corpus weight
- fonctionnera
fonctionnera
77,137 corpus weight
What this shows « flirter » 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 | flirter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flœʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flirter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around flirter (IPA \flœʁ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,861 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for flirter, with forms such as "fflirter", "fliretr", and "flirrter". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "foirer", "flotter", "flirt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 flirter, spelled F-L-I-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’adonner au flirt.
- 2S’approcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flirter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On remise le parapluie, L’amour, fuyant les entresols, Flirte, ô gué ! sous les parasols !
Et il se promettait, tout en flirtant avec sa fiancée, d’insister pour que la date de leur mariage fût fixée à une époque plus rapprochée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflirter
- fliretr
- flirrter
- flirterr
- flirtre
- flirtter
- fllirter
- flriter
- lfirter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flirter - 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 "flirter", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).