flottants
\flɔ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“flottants” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,173
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de flottant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flottants · flottants · French
flottants · rank #28,173 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,173
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fleuron
Nearest frequency peer: fleuron (-2 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 « flottants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- finaux
finaux
71,832 corpus weight
- flambée
flambée
71,831 corpus weight
- fleuron
fleuron
71,830 corpus weight
- flottants
flottants
71,828 corpus weight
- foutais
foutais
71,826 corpus weight
- frontalier
frontalier
71,825 corpus weight
What this shows « flottants » 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 | flottants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \flɔ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flottants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around flottants (IPA \flɔ.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,173 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de flottant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for flottants, with forms such as "fflottants", "fllottants", and "flotants". 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, "flottent", "frottant", "flottant", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flottants, spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de flottant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flottants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pontons sont flottants, le bambou flexible et les planches disjointes laissent entrapparaître l’eau sale de la ville.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflottants
- fllottants
- flotants
- flotatnts
- flottannts
- flottanst
- flottantss
- flottantts
- flottatns
- flottnats
- fltotants
- folttants
- lfottants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flottants - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).