flamingo
\fləˈmɪŋ.ɡəʊ\
The verdict
“flamingo” is uncommon French (frequency #59,295 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,295
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flamant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flamingo · flamingo · French
flamingo · rank #59,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,295
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flamants
Nearest frequency peer: flamants (-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 « flamingo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- firefly
firefly
40,710 corpus weight
- flaire
flaire
40,709 corpus weight
- flamants
flamants
40,707 corpus weight
- flamingo
flamingo
40,706 corpus weight
- Flavio
Flavio
40,705 corpus weight
- fongicides
fongicides
40,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flamingo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamingo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fləˈmɪŋ.ɡəʊ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flamingo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flamingo is uncommon French at frequency #59,295 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fləˈmɪŋ.ɡəʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Flamant.".
flamingo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flamingo, spelled F-L-A-M-I-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Flamant.
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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