flandrin
\flɑ̃.dʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“flandrin” is uncommon French (frequency #75,696 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,696
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de la Flandre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flandrin · flandrin · French
flandrin · rank #75,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,696
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH floristique
Nearest frequency peer: floristique (+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 « flandrin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fidjien
fidjien
24,309 corpus weight
- finisseur
finisseur
24,308 corpus weight
- Finney
Finney
24,307 corpus weight
- flandrin
flandrin
24,305 corpus weight
- floristique
floristique
24,304 corpus weight
- fonceur
fonceur
24,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flandrin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flandrin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ̃.dʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flandrin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flandrin is uncommon French at frequency #75,696 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɑ̃.dʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for flandrin in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flandrin, spelled F-L-A-N-D-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant de la Flandre.
- 2Sobriquet qui désigne un homme de haute taille, mince et d’allure molle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flandrin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’orfèvre, s’approchant. – Vous parlez en patriote, ami ; je vous conseille de prendre garde à ce flandrin. Passe un officier allemand.
Et les paysans, ces grands flandrins qui tremblaient quelques mois auparavant comme des lièvres, lorsqu’on les regardait de travers… eh bien, je les ai vus traiter d’un air d’arrogance de vieux soldats, […].
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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