flamber
French, verb/flɑ̃.be/
flamber is spelled F-L-A-M-B-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flamber is a French verb meaning “to flame, flambé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire de la flamme”.
What does flamber mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flame, flambé
- 2
to squander money, especially on gambling
- 3
(of costs, rates, etc) to rise sharply; to surge; to skyrocket
- 4
to burn, blaze
- 5
to buckle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire de la flamme. 2. Augmenter fortement. 3. Se déformer dans une direction perpendiculaire à la force appliquée. 4. Passer sur le feu.
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 flamber
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flambant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flambé participle past
- flambe first-person indicative present
- flambes indicative present second-person
- flambons first-person indicative plural
- flambez indicative plural present
- flambent indicative plural present
- flambais first-person imperfect indicative
- flambait imperfect indicative singular
- flambions first-person imperfect indicative
- flambiez imperfect indicative plural
- flambaient imperfect indicative plural
- flambai first-person historic indicative
- flambas historic indicative past
- flamba historic indicative past
- flambâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flamber?
- /flɑ̃.be/
- \flɑ̃.be\
- [flɑ̃.be]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flamber
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flamber in French?
flamber appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).