flute
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,047
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
flute is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument à vent sous forme de tuyau percé d’orifices. De l’air soufflé est mis en vibration par un biseau disposé près de l’embouchure du tuyau dont la longueur est déterminée par le nombre et la... Pronounced \flyt\. Often confused with fût and fout.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flyt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flute is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flyt\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,047 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for flute, with forms such as "fflute", "fllute", and "fltue". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fût", "fout", "flux", 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 flute, spelled F-L-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument à vent sous forme de tuyau percé d’orifices. De l’air soufflé est mis en vibration par un biseau disposé près de l’embouchure du tuyau dont la longueur est déterminée par le nombre et la taille d’orifices disposés sur le corps de l’instrument. On obtient différents sons par le souffle et par le mouvement des doigts sur les trous.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fflute,fllute,fltue,fluet,flutte,fulte,lfute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "flute"
Frequency rank: #45,047 in French
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