flac

[fɫak]

/[fɫak]/ adj

The verdict

“flac” is uncommon German (frequency #73,490 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,490
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mager, hager, schlaff, schwach

Corpus desk

Index DE-flac · flac · German

flac · rank #73,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,490
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH flauschige

Nearest frequency peer: flauschige (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „flac“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „flac“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for flac
PropertyValue
Headwordflac
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[fɫak]
Letters4
Frequency rank#73,490
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „flac“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).flacfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „flauschige“ (#73,491), „Firmenlogo“ (#73,488), „Firewalls“ (#73,487). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „flac“ bei #73,490. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

flac is uncommon German at frequency #73,490 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [fɫak]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mager, hager, schlaff, schwach".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for flac, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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. The correct German form is flac, spelled F-L-A-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    mager, hager, schlaff, schwach

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flac"?
"flac" is spelled F-L-A-C. The IPA pronunciation is [fɫak].
What does "flac" mean?
As an adjective, "flac" means: mager, hager, schlaff, schwach
How do you pronounce "flac"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "flac" is [fɫak]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "flac" come from?
"flac" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list