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flaming

/ˈfleɪmɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb

flaming is an adjective meaning “On fire with visible flames” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-M-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 2.7 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does flaming mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    On fire with visible flames.

    The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.

  2. 2

    Very bright and the color of flame.

  3. 3

    colloquialVery showy, flamboyant.

    I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laaaaming.

  4. 4

    colloquialExtremely obvious; visibly evident.

    To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.

  5. 5

    AustraliaUKcolloquialDamned, bloody.

    I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!

  6. 6

    Very enthusiastic or passionate.

    I hate it with a flaming passion!

noun

  1. 1

    An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.

  2. 2

    Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.

  3. 3

    Vitriolic criticism.

    You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of flame (a form of flame)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce flaming?

  • /ˈfleɪmɪŋ/

Flaming has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-flaming.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of flaming

  • more flaming comparative
  • most flaming superlative
  • flamings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flaming?

Flaming appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Flaming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense On fire with visible flames:

LanguageWords
Frenchenflammé, flambant
Portugueseflamejante
Spanishllameante

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.