flow
\flo\
The verdict
“flow” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,368
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flux, rythme avec lequel le rappeur débite les paroles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flow · flow · French
flow · rank #16,368 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,368
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH floraison
Nearest frequency peer: floraison (-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 « flow »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flacon
flacon
83,635 corpus weight
- floraison
floraison
83,634 corpus weight
- flow
flow
83,633 corpus weight
- fonctionnant
fonctionnant
83,632 corpus weight
- fortificati…
fortifications
83,631 corpus weight
- Fukushima
Fukushima
83,630 corpus weight
What this shows « flow » 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 | flow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « flow »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around flow (IPA \flo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,368 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for flow, with forms such as "fflow", "fllow", and "floww". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fo", "fou", "foi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is flow, spelled F-L-O-W.
Definition
- 1Flux, rythme avec lequel le rappeur débite les paroles.
- 2État de motivation et d'attention focalisées qui permet de mobiliser au mieux ses facultés et d'atteindre une performance optimale.
- 3Style.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flow appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une attention quasi maniaque est nécessaire, et la négligence est interdite. Selon lui, l’accès à ce niveau de concentration requiert même un état de l’esprit tout à fait particulier qu’on appelle le “flow” (en français dire le “flux” ou alors “la zone”, mais la notion est mieux identifiée en psychologie positive dans son expression anglaise, bien qu’on l…
J’ai cramé ton flow, je vois de quel genre t’es J’sais qu’on va s’entendre j’ai de la monnaie
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflow
- fllow
- floww
- flwo
- folw
- lfow
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flow - 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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