flottant

\flɔ.tɑ̃\

/\flɔ.tɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“flottant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,632
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui flotte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-flottant · flottant · French

flottant · rank #15,632 · 11 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,632
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fleuves

Nearest frequency peer: fleuves (-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 « flottant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « flottant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

flottant vs flottent
88% similar
flottant vs frottent
75% similar
flottant vs frottant
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for flottant
PropertyValue
Headwordflottant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\flɔ.tɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,632
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flottant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).flottantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fleuves » (#15,631), « formées » (#15,633), « firmes » (#15,630). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « flottant » est au #15,632. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around flottant (IPA \flɔ.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,632 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flottant, with forms such as "fflottant", "fllottant", and "flotant". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "flottent", "frottent", "frottant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flottant, spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui flotte.
  2. 2
    Qui est ample, mobile, ondoyant.
  3. 3
    Qui est incertain, irrésolu, variable.
  4. 4
    Dont le potentiel par rapport à la terre n’est pas fixé.
  5. 5
    Se dit d’une quantité de titres de sociétés cotées considérée comme susceptible d’être présentée à tout moment à la vente sur le marché.
  6. 6
    Se dit du montant des chèques ou des effets déjà débités d’un compte et non encore crédités sur un autre compte.
  7. 7
    Se dit des navires et des poissons qui sont sur l’eau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how flottant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le 17 octobre, seulement, Le Caire comprit que les Israéliens continuaient à renforcer leur tête de pont ; à cette date, un pont flottant était déjà en place et une division au grand complet avait pu traverser.
  2. Les tiges, les feuilles de cette plante aquatique sont flottantes.

This word in other languages

floating(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • fflottant
  • fllottant
  • flotant
  • flotatnt
  • flottannt
  • flottantt
  • flottatn
  • flottnat
  • fltotant
  • folttant
  • lfottant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flottant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

fflottant1fllottant1flotant1flotatnt2flottannt1flottantt1flottatn2flottnat2
Edit distance from "flottant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flottant"?
"flottant" is spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \flɔ.tɑ̃\.
What does "flottant" mean?
As an adjective, "flottant" means: Qui flotte.
What words are commonly confused with "flottant"?
"flottant" is commonly confused with "flottent", "frottent", "frottant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "flottant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "flottant" is \flɔ.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "flottant" come from?
"flottant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flottant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Giovanni#15,637ennemies#15,620emmerder#15,616illicite#15,650

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

formées11 variantsdépouille11 variantsinvoquer11 variantscontenue11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list