flamboyer
French, verb/flɑ̃.bwa.je/
flamboyer is spelled F-L-A-M-B-O-Y-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flamboyer is a French verb meaning “to blaze, flame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeter une flamme brillante”.
What does flamboyer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blaze, flame
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jeter une flamme brillante. 2. Briller comme une flamme.
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 flamboyer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flamboyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flamboyé participle past
- flamboie first-person indicative present
- flamboies indicative present second-person
- flamboyons first-person indicative plural
- flamboyez indicative plural present
- flamboient indicative plural present
- flamboyais first-person imperfect indicative
- flamboyait imperfect indicative singular
- flamboyions first-person imperfect indicative
- flamboyiez imperfect indicative plural
- flamboyaient imperfect indicative plural
- flamboyai first-person historic indicative
- flamboyas historic indicative past
- flamboya historic indicative past
- flamboyâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flamboyer?
- /flɑ̃.bwa.je/
- \flɑ̃.bwa.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flamboyer in French?
flamboyer appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).