flottabilité
\flɔ.ta.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“flottabilité” is uncommon French (frequency #84,810 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,810
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui flotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flottabilite · flottabilité · French
flottabilité · rank #84,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,810
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flins
Nearest frequency peer: flins (-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 « flottabilité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flashball
flashball
15,193 corpus weight
- flins
flins
15,192 corpus weight
- flottabilité
flottabilité
15,191 corpus weight
- floués
floués
15,190 corpus weight
- Foued
Foued
15,189 corpus weight
- fouteur
fouteur
15,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flottabilité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flottabilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔ.ta.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #84,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flottabilité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flottabilité is uncommon French at frequency #84,810 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɔ.ta.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de ce qui flotte.".
Zero misspellings are on record for flottabilité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flottabilité, spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui flotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flottabilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les variations de flottabilité pèsent aussi sur l’effort musculaire, à cause de la plus grande ou de la moindre résistance opposée aux membres qui forcent pendant le palmage.
La flottablilité donnée par le LCR réduit le poids effectif de l’encéphale de 97 %.
This word in other languages
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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