flottement
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,791
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
flottement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de flotter sur l’eau, d’onduler dans l’air. Pronounced \flɔt.mɑ̃\. Often confused with flottent and fortement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flottement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flottement is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flɔt.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,791 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for flottement, with forms such as "fflottement", "fllottement", and "flotement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "flottent", "fortement", "frottement", 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 flottement, spelled F-L-O-T-T-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de flotter sur l’eau, d’onduler dans l’air.
- 2Mouvement d’ondulation dans la marche d’une troupe, et qui rompt ainsi son alignement.
- 3Incertitude dans les idées ou dans les actes.
- 4Vibrations aéroélastiques de haute fréquence, entretenues et parfois divergentes, affectant la cellule d’un avion.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fflottement,fllottement,flotement,flotetment,flotteemnt,flottemennt,flottementt,flottemetn,flottemment,flottemnet,flottmeent,fltotement,folttement,lfottement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flottement
Misspelling Variants of "flottement"
Frequency rank: #41,791 in French
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