flam
\flam\
The verdict
“flam” is uncommon French (frequency #66,737 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,737
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flam · flam · French
flam · rank #66,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,737
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fissurer
Nearest frequency peer: fissurer (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferre
ferre
33,267 corpus weight
- finançait
finançait
33,266 corpus weight
- fissurer
fissurer
33,265 corpus weight
- flam
flam
33,264 corpus weight
- flatulences
flatulences
33,262 corpus weight
- fleurette
fleurette
33,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flam is uncommon French at frequency #66,737 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Crosse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for flam in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is flam, spelled F-L-A-M.
Definition
- 1Crosse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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