flotteur
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,443
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
flotteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouvrier qui fait, qui construit ou qui mène des trains de bois sur les cours d’eau. Pronounced \flɔ.tœʁ\. Often confused with frotter and flotte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flotteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flotteur is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flɔ.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,443 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for flotteur, with forms such as "fflotteur", "fllotteur", and "flotetur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "frotter", "flotte", "flotter", 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 flotteur, spelled F-L-O-T-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier qui fait, qui construit ou qui mène des trains de bois sur les cours d’eau.
- 2Petit corps léger que l’on fait flotter sur une eau courante pour en mesurer la vitesse.
- 3Cylindre qui sert à maintenir un niveau d’essence constant dans le carburateur d’un moteur.
- 4Dispositif qui indique le niveau du liquide dans une chaudière à vapeur.
- 5Boule flottante disposée de manière à agir sur l’ouverture d’un sifflet d’alarme, afin d’avertir le chauffeur que le niveau de l’eau est descendu au-dessous du point réglementaire, dans une machine à vapeur.
- 6Dispositif qui maintient le niveau de l’eau dans la chasse d’eau.
- 7Dispositif qui permet aux hydravions de se maintenir à la surface de l’eau, ou aux trimarans et catamarans de se tenir sur l’eau.
- 8Sein.
- 9Petit élément flottant, visible, afin de voir lorsqu’il y a une prise.
- 10Petite bouée.
- 11Gros piment.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fflotteur,fllotteur,flotetur,floteur,flotteru,flotteurr,flottuer,fltoteur,foltteur,lfotteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flotteur
Misspelling Variants of "flotteur"
Frequency rank: #43,443 in French
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