flânerie
\flan.ʁi\
The verdict
“flânerie” is uncommon French (frequency #86,713 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,713
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de flâner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flanerie · flânerie · French
flânerie · rank #86,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,713
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Florennes
Nearest frequency peer: Florennes (-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 « flânerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flaccus
flaccus
13,291 corpus weight
- fleurdelisé
fleurdelisé
13,290 corpus weight
- Florennes
Florennes
13,289 corpus weight
- flânerie
flânerie
13,288 corpus weight
- flétrir
flétrir
13,287 corpus weight
- fondra
fondra
13,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flânerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flânerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flan.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flânerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flânerie is uncommon French at frequency #86,713 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flan.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de flâner.".
flânerie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flânerie, spelled F-L-Â-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action de flâner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flânerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une de ses précédentes flâneries, il avait remarqué là un vieux jardin hanté d’un vieux homme et d’une vieille femme, et dans ce jardin un pommier passable. …
La principale occupation entre les repas consistait, pour mon ami Vincent Desflemmes, en longues flâneries par les rues, par les boulevards, par les quais et plus généralement par toutes les artères de la capitale.
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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