flot
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,221
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
flot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Masse liquide en mouvement. Pronounced \flo\. Often confused with fo and ft.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flot is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flo\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,221 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for flot, with forms such as "fflot", "fllot", and "flott". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fo", "ft", "fou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is flot, spelled F-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Masse liquide en mouvement.
- 2Marée montante, par opposition à jusant, la marée descendante.
- 3Masse ; grande quantité.
- 4Importante masse d'eau larguée dans un cours d’eau, en particulier pour les opérations de flottage.
- 5Mouvements important, grande foule en mouvement, multitude.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fflot,fllot,flott,flto,folt,lfot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flot
Misspelling Variants of "flot"
Frequency rank: #11,221 in French
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