flottait
\flo.tɛ\
The verdict
“flottait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,768. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,768
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de flotter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flottait · flottait · French
flottait · rank #40,768 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,768
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fleuries
Nearest frequency peer: fleuries (-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 « flottait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fiori
fiori
59,236 corpus weight
- flasque
flasque
59,235 corpus weight
- fleuries
fleuries
59,234 corpus weight
- flottait
flottait
59,233 corpus weight
- foisonnement
foisonnement
59,232 corpus weight
- forain
forain
59,231 corpus weight
What this shows « flottait » 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 | flottait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flo.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flottait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around flottait (IPA \flo.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,768 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de flotter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for flottait, with forms such as "fflottait", "fllottait", and "flotait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "foutait", "flottant", "flottent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is flottait, spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de flotter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flottait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il allongeait sa jambe, sèche comme un échalas, qui flottait dans une molletière trop large et sans couleur, pour montrer fièrement sa chaussure.
C’était en mars, et Gabriel Morange était allé se rafraîchir dans l’eau vive du ruisseau, au bas du village. Après le bain, il s’était allongé dans l’herbe tendre, à l’abri d’un taillis de sureaux, juste à côté d’un pré où pâturaient des vaches. Leur chaleur animale flottait en brume légère sur l’horizon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflottait
- fllottait
- flotait
- flotatit
- flottaitt
- flottati
- flottiat
- fltotait
- folttait
- lfottait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flottait - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).