flamboyance
"flamboyance" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flamboyance” is uncommon English (frequency #93,701 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,701
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of being flamboyant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flamboyance · flamboyance · English
flamboyance · rank #93,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,701
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flagon
Nearest frequency peer: flagon (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “flamboyance”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Faxon
Faxon
6,309 corpus weight
- fieldstone
fieldstone
6,304 corpus weight
- flagon
flagon
6,301 corpus weight
- flamboyance
flamboyance
6,300 corpus weight
- flits
flits
6,296 corpus weight
- Fluxus
Fluxus
6,294 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “flamboyance” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamboyance |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flamboyance” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
flamboyance is uncommon English at frequency #93,701 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for flamboyance in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flamboyant + -ance. The correct English form is flamboyance, spelled F-L-A-M-B-O-Y-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1The condition of being flamboyant.
- 2A group of flamingos; the collective noun for flamingos.
Etymology
From flamboyant + -ance.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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