fla
\fla\
The verdict
“fla” is uncommon French (frequency #54,592 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,592
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Double coup de baguettes frappé sur le tambour en commençant faiblement de la main droite et en appuyant fortement de la main gauche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fla · fla · French
fla · rank #54,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,592
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Firth
Nearest frequency peer: Firth (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- financeurs
financeurs
45,412 corpus weight
- finitude
finitude
45,411 corpus weight
- Firth
Firth
45,410 corpus weight
- fla
fla
45,409 corpus weight
- FLAC
FLAC
45,408 corpus weight
- flush
flush
45,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fla is uncommon French at frequency #54,592 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fla\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Double coup de baguettes frappé sur le tambour en commençant faiblement de la main droite et en appuyant fortement de la main gauche.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fla in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fla, spelled F-L-A.
Definition
- 1Double coup de baguettes frappé sur le tambour en commençant faiblement de la main droite et en appuyant fortement de la main gauche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire un ra pour un fla.
Les fla et les ra.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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