flamboyants
\flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“flamboyants” is uncommon French (frequency #51,472 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,472
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de flamboyant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flamboyants · flamboyants · French
flamboyants · rank #51,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,472
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH fixera
Nearest frequency peer: fixera (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “flamboyants”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fillonistes
fillonistes
48,533 corpus weight
- fixations
fixations
48,532 corpus weight
- fixed
fixed
48,531 corpus weight
- fixera
fixera
48,530 corpus weight
- flamboyants
flamboyants
48,529 corpus weight
- focalisée
focalisée
48,528 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “flamboyants” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamboyants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flamboyants” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
flamboyants is uncommon French at frequency #51,472 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de flamboyant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for flamboyants in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flamboyants, spelled F-L-A-M-B-O-Y-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de flamboyant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flamboyants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux côtés des fiers palmiers se dévoilent quantités de parfums : bouquets d’agrumes, géraniums flamboyants, senteurs de pain d’épices et de miel de l’héliotrope, effluves d’ananas et de sauge, odeurs de fleurs d’oranger, de citronnier, de mandarinier, de verveine citronnée.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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