flair
French, noun/flɛʁ/
flair is spelled F-L-A-I-R (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flair is a French masculine noun meaning “sense of smell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action ou faculté de flairer”.
What does flair mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesense of smell
- 2
masculineintuition, sixth sense
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action ou faculté de flairer. 2. Odorat du chien. 3. Flair bartending.
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 flair
- flairs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flair?
- /flɛʁ/
- \flɛʁ\
- [flɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flair in French?
flair appears 1.8 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).