Florence
\flɔ.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“Florence” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,560
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville d’Italie, capitale de la région de Toscane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-florence · Florence · French
Florence · rank #5,560 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,560
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH favorables
Nearest frequency peer: favorables (-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 « Florence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enjeu
enjeu
94,444 corpus weight
- faillite
faillite
94,443 corpus weight
- favorables
favorables
94,442 corpus weight
- Florence
Florence
94,441 corpus weight
- gentille
gentille
94,440 corpus weight
- globe
globe
94,439 corpus weight
What this shows « Florence » 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 | Florence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \flɔ.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Florence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Florence (IPA \flɔ.ʁɑ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,560 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Florence, with forms such as "fflorence", "fllorence", and "floernce". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Florent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Florence, spelled F-L-O-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville d’Italie, capitale de la région de Toscane.
- 2Province autour de cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Florence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
.– Adieu, Florence, peste de l’Italie ! adieu, mère stérile, qui n’as plus de lait pour tes enfants ! .– Adieu, Florence la bâtarde, spectre hideux de l’antique Florence ! adieu, fange sans nom ! .– Adieu, Florence ! maudites soient les mamelles de tes femmes ! maudits soient tes sanglots ! maudits les prières de tes églises, le pain de tes blés, l’air de…
– Un vieil auteur a dit : « Le ciel de Florence, léger et subtil, nourrit les belles idées des hommes. » J’ai vécu des jours délicieux en Toscane. Je voudrais bien en vivre de nouveaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflorence
- fllorence
- floernce
- florecne
- florencce
- florenec
- florennce
- flornece
- florrence
- flroence
- folrence
- lforence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Florence - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).