flagrant
French, adjective/fla.ɡʁɑ̃/
flagrant is spelled F-L-A-G-R-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written French, the 12,541st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flagrant is a French adjective meaning “flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est très visible, très évident”.
What does flagrant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident
C'est flagrant.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est très visible, très évident. 2. Qui est tellement évident qu’on ne peut le nier, en parlant notamment d’une faute, d’un crime.
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 flagrant
- flagrante feminine
- flagrants masculine plural
- flagrantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flagrant?
- /fla.ɡʁɑ̃/
- \fla.ɡʁɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flagrant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flagrant in French?
flagrant appears 4.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).