flambeur
\flɑ̃.bœʁ\
The verdict
“flambeur” is uncommon French (frequency #82,033 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,033
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui flambe son argent, particulièrement au jeu ; qui dépense de façon ostentatoire, cherche à en mettre plein la vue ; m’as-tu-vu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flambeur · flambeur · French
flambeur · rank #82,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiottes
Nearest frequency peer: fiottes (-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 « flambeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- figurations
figurations
17,971 corpus weight
- fiottes
fiottes
17,969 corpus weight
- flambeur
flambeur
17,968 corpus weight
- flament
flament
17,967 corpus weight
- flattent
flattent
17,966 corpus weight
- flemmards
flemmards
17,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flambeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flambeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ̃.bœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flambeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flambeur is uncommon French at frequency #82,033 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɑ̃.bœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui flambe son argent, particulièrement au jeu ; qui dépense de façon ostentatoire, cherche à en mettre plein la vue ; m’as-tu-vu.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for flambeur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is flambeur, spelled F-L-A-M-B-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui flambe son argent, particulièrement au jeu ; qui dépense de façon ostentatoire, cherche à en mettre plein la vue ; m’as-tu-vu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flambeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’ils vous aperçoivent sur un champ de courses, ils vous font passer pour un flambeur incorrigible qui dépense tous ses appointements et qui vendrait sa culotte pour encourager la race chevaline.
Gaspillage éhonté! Au prix où est le fuel… flambeurs!!
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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