FLAC
\flak\
The verdict
“FLAC” is uncommon French (frequency #54,593 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,593
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Norme d’encodage sans perte de fichiers musicaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flac · FLAC · French
FLAC · rank #54,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,593
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fla
Nearest frequency peer: fla (-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 « FLAC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- follicules
follicules
45,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FLAC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FLAC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flak\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FLAC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
FLAC is uncommon French at frequency #54,593 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Norme d’encodage sans perte de fichiers musicaux.".
FLAC has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is FLAC, spelled F-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Norme d’encodage sans perte de fichiers musicaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FLAC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'encodage FLAC donne une qualité sonore rigoureusement équivalente à celle d’un disque compact, pour un encombrement réduit de moitié.
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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