flambage
French, noun/flɑ̃.baʒ/
flambage is spelled F-L-A-M-B-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flambage is a French masculine noun meaning “buckling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’être soumis à la flamme”.
What does flambage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebuckling
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’être soumis à la flamme. 2. Action, pour une structure soumise à une charge de compression, de se déverser latéralement.
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 flambage
- flambages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flambage?
- /flɑ̃.baʒ/
- \flɑ̃.baʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flambage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flambage in French?
flambage appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).