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fleming

/ˈflɛmɪŋ/verb

fleming is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of fleme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-M-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 3.6 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fleming mean?

verb

  1. 1

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

noun

as Fleming
  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium.

    , Episode 12, The Cyclops --And our eyes are on Europe, says the citizen. We had our trade with Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were pupped, Spanish ale in Galway, the winebark on the winedark waterway.

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

How do you pronounce fleming?

  • /ˈflɛmɪŋ/

Fleming 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)-Vealhurl-Fleming.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is fleming?

Fleming appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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).

Fleming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense native or inhabitant of Flanders:

LanguageWords
FrenchFlamand, Flamande
GermanFlame, Flamin, Flämin
Portugueseflamengo
Spanishflamenco, flamenca

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.

Where does fleming come from?

From Middle English flameng, from late Old Norse Flæmingi, from Old Norse Flǽmingr, Middle Dutch Vlaminc, Vleminc, from Old Frisian (unattested) (compare West Frisian Flaming), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) and the patronymic suffix *-ingaz (“belonging to, descended from”). More at Flanders.

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