flagornerie
\fla.ɡɔʁ.nə.ʁi\
The verdict
“flagornerie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flatterie grossière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flagornerie · flagornerie · French
flagornerie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flagornerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.ɡɔʁ.nə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
flagornerie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fla.ɡɔʁ.nə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
flagornerie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flagornerie, spelled F-L-A-G-O-R-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Flatterie grossière.
- 2Flatterie servile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flagornerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les flagorneries dédicatoires des écrivains louis-quatorziens aplatis sur les marches du trône paraissent aujourd'hui si délirantes, que nous nous interrogeons sur leur sincérité, voire leur lucidité.
Flagorneries ! Foutaises ! Bon à rien ! Ectoplasme ! Quenouille !
This word in other languages
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