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“fancy” and “flancs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,795
- “fancy” frequency rank
- #16,132
- “flancs” frequency rank
- 55927
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fancy | flancs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Tissu de coton imprimé. | Pluriel de flanc. |
Letter map: fancy vs flancs
Shared letters muted; letters that set fancy and flancs apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Corpus notes: fancy and flancs
fancy and flancs are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55927, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fancy is recorded at frequency rank #39,795, classified as anoun. flancs is at rank #16,132, tagged as anoun, pronounced \flɑ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 55927, this pair ranks #124,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of fancy vs flancs
Shared letters: acfn. Private to "fancy": y. Private to "flancs": ls.
"fancy" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "flancs" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "fancy" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "flancs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #124,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "fancy" and "flancs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fancy vs fange". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #124,299 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.