Which to use
“flottante” and “flottantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,595
- “flottante” frequency rank
- #35,949
- “flottantes” frequency rank
- 60544
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | flottante | flottantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de flottant. | Féminin pluriel de flottant. |
Same sound, different letters: flottante vs flottantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. flottante runs 9 letters (CCVCCVCCV) against flottantes's 10 (CCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - flottante and flottantes
This is the hard kind. flottante and flottantes are pronounced identically (\flɔ.tɑ̃t\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “flottante” sits inside “flottantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60544, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
flottante is recorded at frequency rank #24,595, classified as anadj, pronounced \flɔ.tɑ̃t\. flottantes is at rank #35,949, tagged as anadj, pronounced \flɔ.tɑ̃t\.
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 60544, this pair ranks #97,072 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of flottante vs flottantes
Shared letters: aeflnot. Private to "flottante": -. Private to "flottantes": s.
"flottante" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVCCV · "flottantes" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- flottante ← fflottante · fllottante · flotante · flotatnte · flottanet · flottannte · flottantte · flottatne
- flottantes ← fflottantes · fllottantes · flotantes · flotatntes · flottanets · flottanntes · flottantess · flottantse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "flottante" for "flottantes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "flottante" vs "flottantes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "flottante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "flottantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #97,072 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "flottante" and "flottantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flottante vs frottant". 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 #97,072 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.