fla
\fla\
The verdict
“fla” is an uncommon French word, ranked #54,592 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #54,592
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Double coup de baguettes frappé sur le tambour en commençant faiblement de la main droite et en appuyant fortement de la main gauche.
| 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) |
Where “fla” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fla is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fla\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,592 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
Synonyms
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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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Using “fla”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fla\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.