flops
\flɔps\
The verdict
“flops” is uncommon French (frequency #55,971 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,971
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de FLOPS. Unité de mesure de la puissance de calcul d’un système informatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flops · flops · French
flops · rank #55,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,971
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Florange
Nearest frequency peer: Florange (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flops »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fido
fido
44,034 corpus weight
- flops
flops
44,030 corpus weight
- Florange
Florange
44,029 corpus weight
- forgent
forgent
44,028 corpus weight
- foutrais
foutrais
44,027 corpus weight
- fraisier
fraisier
44,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flops » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flops |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔps\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flops » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flops is uncommon French at frequency #55,971 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɔps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de FLOPS. Unité de mesure de la puissance de calcul d’un système informatique.".
flops doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flops, spelled F-L-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de FLOPS. Unité de mesure de la puissance de calcul d’un système informatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flops appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une base de comparaison, utilisée dans le haut de gamme des machines scientifiques est le nombre d’opérations arithmétiques flottantes par secondes qu’elles sont capables de réaliser. Une telle unité est une base de comparaison très commode pour les calculs de nature « numérique ». Nous dirons donc qu’une machine effectue n flops (opérations flottantes pa…
Le flops (acronyme de floating point operation per second, opération en virgule flottante par seconde) est une unité d’évaluation de la puissance de calcul des ordinateurs. L’abréviation est « flops » au singulier si l’on inclut l’élément « par seconde ». L’usage observé indique une tendance à dire « flop » au singulier et « flops » au pluriel, probableme…
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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