flouter
\flu.te\
The verdict
“flouter” is uncommon French (frequency #67,522 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,522
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de rendre flou un élément de documents photographiques ou vidéo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flouter · flouter · French
flouter · rank #67,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,522
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fontvieille
Nearest frequency peer: Fontvieille (+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 « flouter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- figuiers
figuiers
32,482 corpus weight
- filmez
filmez
32,481 corpus weight
- flouter
flouter
32,479 corpus weight
- Fontvieille
Fontvieille
32,478 corpus weight
- formerait
formerait
32,477 corpus weight
- foufoune
foufoune
32,476 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flouter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flouter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flu.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flouter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flouter is uncommon French at frequency #67,522 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de rendre flou un élément de documents photographiques ou vidéo.".
flouter has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flouter, spelled F-L-O-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Action de rendre flou un élément de documents photographiques ou vidéo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flouter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour des raisons juridiques, j’ai flouté les visages sur cette photographie.
Les doubles rideaux jaune et marron à moitié ouverts encadrent le voilage, qui floute la vitre et fait apparaître le jardin comme derrière un nuage transparent, une cloche en verre plus ou moins dépolie, plus ou moins propre, plus ou moins sale, qui a l'air de protéger quelque chose de plus ou moins irréel ou réel.
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This word in other languages
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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