flamboyant
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,554
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
flamboyant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui brûle en produisant une vive lueur, des flammes. Pronounced \flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃\. Often confused with flamboyante and flambant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamboyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flamboyant is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,554 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for flamboyant, with forms such as "falmboyant", "fflamboyant", and "flabmoyant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "flamboyante", "flambant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is flamboyant, spelled F-L-A-M-B-O-Y-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui brûle en produisant une vive lueur, des flammes.
- 2Qui produit une vive lueur, un éclat.
- 3Qui est éclatant, remarquable dans son genre.
- 4D’une couleur chaude, par exemple rouge vif; qui évoque les flammes.
- 5D’une richesse éclatante, en faisant généralement référence à des vêtements décorés de perles, de pierres précieuses, etc, qui les rendent ostentatoires.
- 6Se dit d’une pièce ondée, terminée par une flamme.
- 7Style caractéristique de l’architecture gothique française du XVᵉ siècle, où certains ornements (soufflets, mouchettes…) ont une forme ondulée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: falmboyant,fflamboyant,flabmoyant,flambboyant,flamboaynt,flamboyannt,flamboyantt,flamboyatn,flamboynat,flamboyyant,flambyoant,flammboyant,flamobyant,fllamboyant,flmaboyant,lfamboyant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flamboyant
Misspelling Variants of "flamboyant"
Frequency rank: #23,554 in French
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