flagrance
French, noun/fla.ɡʁɑ̃s/
flagrance is spelled F-L-A-G-R-A-N-C-E (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). Flagrance is a French feminine noun meaning “flagrancy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Catégorie de crimes ou délits relevant du flagrant délit (c’est-à-dire où le coupable est pris sur le fait)”.
What does flagrance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineflagrancy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Catégorie de crimes ou délits relevant du flagrant délit (c’est-à-dire où le coupable est pris sur le fait).
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 flagrance
- flagrances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flagrance?
- /fla.ɡʁɑ̃s/
- \fla.ɡʁɑ̃s\
- [fla.ɡʁɑ̃s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flagrance in French?
flagrance 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).