flouter

\flu.te\

/\flu.te\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flouter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for flouter
PropertyValue
Headwordflouter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\flu.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#67,522
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « flouter » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).floutertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Fontvieille » (#67,523), « filmez » (#67,520), « formerait » (#67,524). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « flouter » est au #67,522. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Action de rendre flou un élément de documents photographiques ou vidéo.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how flouter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pour des raisons juridiques, j’ai flouté les visages sur cette photographie.
  2. 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.

Antonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flouter"?
"flouter" is spelled F-L-O-U-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \flu.te\.
What does "flouter" mean?
As a verb, "flouter" means: Action de rendre flou un élément de documents photographiques ou vidéo.
How do you pronounce "flouter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "flouter" is \flu.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "flouter" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flouter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list