flageller
French, verb/fla.ʒɛ.le/
flageller is spelled F-L-A-G-E-L-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 79,170th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flageller is a French verb meaning “to beat severely, with a scourge or a whip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soumettre au supplice du fouet”.
What does flageller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beat severely, with a scourge or a whip
- 2
to whip oneself as mortification
- 3
to abuse verbally, give a tongue-lashing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Soumettre au supplice du fouet. 2. Critiquer cruellement en discours ou par écrit.
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 flageller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flagellant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flagellé participle past
- flagelle first-person indicative present
- flagelles indicative present second-person
- flagellons first-person indicative plural
- flagellez indicative plural present
- flagellent indicative plural present
- flagellais first-person imperfect indicative
- flagellait imperfect indicative singular
- flagellions first-person imperfect indicative
- flagelliez imperfect indicative plural
- flagellaient imperfect indicative plural
- flagellai first-person historic indicative
- flagellas historic indicative past
- flagella historic indicative past
- flagellâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flageller?
- /fla.ʒɛ.le/
- /fla.ʒe.le/
- \fla.ʒe.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flageller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flageller in French?
flageller appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).