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flâné

French, verb

flâné is spelled F-L-Â-N-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 88,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flâné is a French verb meaning “past participle of flâner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, flâne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.

What does flâné mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of flâner

verb

as flâne
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Flânerie.

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 flâné

  • flânée feminine
  • flânés masculine plural
  • flânées feminine plural
  • flânes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is flâné in French?

flâné appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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