flagelle
French, noun
flagelle is spelled F-L-A-G-E-L-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 75,533rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flagelle is a French noun meaning “flagellum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of flageller. With an accent, flagellé is a different word: “flagellate”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Filament ayant la forme d’un fouet dont sont munies certaines cellules et qui permet leur déplacement”.
What does flagelle mean in English?
noun
- 1
flagellum
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
flagellate
noun
- 1
masculineflagellate
verb
- 1
past participle of flageller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui possède un flagelle.
noun: 1. Filament ayant la forme d’un fouet dont sont munies certaines cellules et qui permet leur déplacement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of flagelle
- flagellée feminine
- flagellés masculine plural
- flagellées feminine plural
- flagelles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to flagelle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flagelle in French?
flagelle appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).