flambent
\flɑ̃b\
The verdict
“flambent” is uncommon French (frequency #76,580 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,580
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de flamber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flambent · flambent · French
flambent · rank #76,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,580
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fir
Nearest frequency peer: fir (-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 « flambent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- finlandaises
finlandaises
23,424 corpus weight
- fions
fions
23,423 corpus weight
- fir
fir
23,422 corpus weight
- flambent
flambent
23,421 corpus weight
- flegmatique
flegmatique
23,419 corpus weight
- flouté
flouté
23,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flambent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flambent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flambent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flambent is uncommon French at frequency #76,580 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flɑ̃b\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for flambent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flambent, spelled F-L-A-M-B-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de flamber.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de flamber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flambent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les capitaines d’industrie et les commerçants d’avant-hier cachaient leur bien ; les néobourgeois flambent leurs gains et paradent en ville.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).