flottent
\flɔt\
The verdict
“flottent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,265. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,265
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de flotter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flottent · flottent · French
flottent · rank #33,265 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,265
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fleurit
Nearest frequency peer: fleurit (-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 « flottent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fermera
fermera
66,739 corpus weight
- FG
FG
66,738 corpus weight
- fleurit
fleurit
66,737 corpus weight
- flottent
flottent
66,736 corpus weight
- flottille
flottille
66,735 corpus weight
- formulations
formulations
66,734 corpus weight
What this shows « flottent » 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 | flottent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flottent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around flottent (IPA \flɔt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,265 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flottent, with forms such as "fflottent", "fllottent", and "flotent". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "foutent", "flotter", "flottes", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flottent, spelled F-L-O-T-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de flotter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de flotter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflottent
- fllottent
- flotent
- flotetnt
- flottennt
- flottentt
- flottetn
- flottnet
- fltotent
- folttent
- lfottent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flottent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flottent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).