flor

noun

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The verdict

“flor” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,344
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-flor · flor · French

flor · rank #42,344 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,344
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH flambeaux

Nearest frequency peer: flambeaux (-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 « flor »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « flor » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

flor vs fo
50% similar
flor vs fou
50% similar
flor vs foi
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for flor
PropertyValue
Headwordflor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#42,344
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flor »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).florse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « flambeaux » (#42,343), « fluorescence » (#42,345), « flamandes » (#42,342). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « flor » est au #42,344. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around flor, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,344 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for flor, with forms such as "fflor", "fllor", and "florr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fo", "fou", "foi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flor, spelled F-L-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fleur.
  2. 2
    Virginité.
  3. 3
    Partie la meilleure, la plus délicate d’une substance.
  4. 4
    Élite.
  5. 5
    Fleur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how flor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Que dis mile targes a flor I fendirent e dequasserent

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • fflor
  • fllor
  • florr
  • flro
  • folr
  • lfor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

fflor1fllor1florr1flro2folr2lfor2
Edit distance from "flor"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flor"?
"flor" is spelled F-L-O-R.
What does "flor" mean?
As a noun, "flor" means: Fleur.
What words are commonly confused with "flor"?
"flor" is commonly confused with "fo", "fou", "foi". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "flor" come from?
"flor" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flor", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hari#42,378haro#42,381ides#42,389diet#42,281

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

forets6 variantsguerra6 variantsemmena6 variantsDionne6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list