floral
\flɔ.ʁal\
The verdict
“floral” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,612
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la fleur, ou qui l’accompagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-floral · floral · French
floral · rank #30,612 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flirte
Nearest frequency peer: flirte (-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 « floral »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- filleul
filleul
69,392 corpus weight
- flirte
flirte
69,390 corpus weight
- floral
floral
69,389 corpus weight
- flous
flous
69,388 corpus weight
- formez
formez
69,387 corpus weight
- fortuite
fortuite
69,386 corpus weight
What this shows « floral » 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 | floral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \flɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « floral »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around floral (IPA \flɔ.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,612 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for floral, with forms such as "ffloral", "flloral", and "floarl". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "flore", "focal", "flores", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is floral, spelled F-L-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la fleur, ou qui l’accompagne.
- 2Qui concerne les fleurs.
- 3Qui a l'apparence de la fleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how floral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il convient enfin qu'un synchronisme écologique existe ou s'établisse entre la plante et le pollinisateur, concernant par exemple la phénologie florale et le rythme d'activité du pollinisateur ; […].
Les enveloppes florales sont le calice et la corolle. — On appelle nectaires certains appendices floraux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffloral
- flloral
- floarl
- florall
- florla
- florral
- flroal
- folral
- lforal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of floral - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).