flancher
\flɑ̃.ʃe\
The verdict
“flancher” is uncommon French (frequency #60,795 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,795
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flancher · flancher · French
flancher · rank #60,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,795
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fisk
Nearest frequency peer: fisk (-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 « flancher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- finals
finals
39,209 corpus weight
- fio
fio
39,208 corpus weight
- fisk
fisk
39,207 corpus weight
- flancher
flancher
39,206 corpus weight
- flashes
flashes
39,205 corpus weight
- foisonnante
foisonnante
39,204 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flancher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flancher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flancher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flancher is uncommon French at frequency #60,795 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flɑ̃.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
flancher doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flancher, spelled F-L-A-N-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jouer.
- 2Badiner, plaisanter.
- 3Faiblir et ne pas continuer dans l’effort lors d’un moment décisif difficile.
- 4Produire un bruit désagréable semblable à ces cris et gémissements.
- 5Faiblir, ne plus fonctionner.
- 6Cesser de fonctionner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flancher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous qui ne flanchez pas devant l’ennemi, vous n'allez pas avoir peur, j'imagine !
Vous flanchez. S’il n’y a pas au-dessus de vous une autorité qui décide, vous tremblez ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).