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flatulent

/ˈflæt͡ʃələnt/adjective

flatulent is an adjective meaning “Affected by gas in the intestine; likely to break wind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-U-L-E-N-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does flatulent mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Affected by gas in the intestine; likely to break wind.

    Sorry, I'm a bit flatulent at the moment - just eaten some curry.

  2. 2

    Causing flatulence.

    a flatulent food

  3. 3

    Reminiscent of flatulence.

    a flatulent smell

  4. 4

    obsoleteEmpty; vain.

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

How do you pronounce flatulent?

  • UK /ˈflætjʊlənt/
  • UK /ˈflæt͡ʃʊlənt/
  • US /ˈflæt͡ʃələnt/

Flatulent has 3 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-flatulent.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of flatulent

  • more flatulent comparative
  • most flatulent superlative

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

How common is flatulent?

Flatulent appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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).

Flatulent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense affected by gas in the intestine:

LanguageWords
Frenchflatulent
Germanflatulent
Portugueseflatulento
Spanishflatulento, flatulente

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 flatulent come from?

From Middle French flatulent.

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