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flambé

adjective, noun, verb

flambé is spelled F-L-A-M-B-É: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, flambé means “Being, or having been, flambéed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in flambé?

Letters6: F-L-A-M-B-É
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is flambé?

Flambé appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

How do you pronounce flambé?

  • US

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

Forms of flambé

  • flambe
  • flambés plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • flambéing participle, present
  • flambéed participle, past
  • flambéd participle, past
  • flambes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • flambeing participle, present
  • flambeed participle, past
  • flambed participle, past

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

What does flambé mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Being, or having been, flambéed.

  2. 2

    Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

noun

  1. 1

    A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

  2. 2

    A flambéed dish.

verb

  1. 1

    To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

    “Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”

adjective

as flambe
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of flambé.

noun

as flambe
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of flambé.

verb

as flambe
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of flambé.

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

Flambé in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchflambé (being or having been flambéed), flamber (to add and ignite alcohol to food)
Portugueseflambado (being or having been flambéed), flambar (to add and ignite alcohol to food)
Germanflambieren (to add and ignite alcohol to food)
Spanishflambear (to add and ignite alcohol to food)

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 flambé come from?

Borrowed from French flambé.

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

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