flottilles
\flɔ.tij\
The verdict
“flottilles” is uncommon French (frequency #96,934 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,934
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flottille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flottilles · flottilles · French
flottilles · rank #96,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,934
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fleurent
Nearest frequency peer: fleurent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flottilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flemmarde
flemmarde
3,071 corpus weight
- Flessel
Flessel
3,070 corpus weight
- fleurant
fleurant
3,069 corpus weight
- fleurent
fleurent
3,068 corpus weight
- flottilles
flottilles
3,067 corpus weight
- fléchées
fléchées
3,066 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flottilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flottilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔ.tij\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flottilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flottilles is uncommon French at frequency #96,934 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɔ.tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de flottille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for flottilles, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flottilles, spelled F-L-O-T-T-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flottille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flottilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les canaux que je rencontre, les rivières sont de vrais cimetières de bateaux ; ces péniches innombrables, dont les flottilles assuraient les communications et le commerce, ont été anéanties à la dynamite ; les unes ont piqué au fond de l’eau et ne montrent plus qu’un reste de leur poupe, les autres au contraire dressent leur avant comme si elles s’étaien…
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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