flagellum
French, noun/fla.ʒɛ.lɔm/
flagellum is spelled F-L-A-G-E-L-L-U-M (9 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written French, the 247,574th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flagellum is a French masculine noun meaning “flagellum (whip)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fléau du dieu égyptien Osiris, insigne d’autorité et un des attributs des pharaons”.
What does flagellum mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineflagellum (whip)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fléau du dieu égyptien Osiris, insigne d’autorité et un des attributs des pharaons.
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 flagellum
- flagellums plural
- flabellum
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flagellum?
- /fla.ʒɛ.lɔm/
- /fla.ʒe.lɔm/
- \fla.ʒɛ.lɔm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flagellum in French?
flagellum appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).