flanc
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,546
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
flanc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des parties latérales du corps de l’homme ou des animaux, qui est depuis le défaut des côtes jusqu’aux hanches. Pronounced \flɑ̃\. It ranks #8,546 in French word frequency. Often confused with FLN and flic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flanc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flanc is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,546 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for flanc, with forms such as "falnc", "fflanc", and "flacn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FLN", "flic", "FNAC", and more, 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 flanc, spelled F-L-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des parties latérales du corps de l’homme ou des animaux, qui est depuis le défaut des côtes jusqu’aux hanches.
- 2Partie qui va de la patte d’avant à la patte d’arrière, chez les quadrupèdes.
- 3Ventre ou partie du ventre qui est comprise entre les deux flancs.
- 4Côté de diverses choses.
- 5Nom des deux partie latérale d'une peau de bovidé, à gauche et à droite du croupon.
- 6Le côté dextre ou senestre de l'écu ; pièce qui correspond au bord de l'écu.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: falnc,fflanc,flacn,flancc,flannc,fllanc,flnac,lfanc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flanc
Misspelling Variants of "flanc"
Frequency rank: #8,546 in French
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