flâneur
\flɑ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“flâneur” is uncommon French (frequency #94,816 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,816
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui flâne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flaneur · flâneur · French
flâneur · rank #94,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluos
Nearest frequency peer: fluos (-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 « flâneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flanquées
flanquées
5,188 corpus weight
- flare
flare
5,187 corpus weight
- fluos
fluos
5,186 corpus weight
- flâneur
flâneur
5,185 corpus weight
- fomente
fomente
5,184 corpus weight
- fondit
fondit
5,183 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flâneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flâneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flâneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flâneur is uncommon French at frequency #94,816 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɑ.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui flâne.".
flâneur has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flâneur, spelled F-L-Â-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui flâne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flâneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les flâneurs qui se promenaient sur la petite place du Châtelet ne venaient pas rôder jusque-là.
C'est là le regard d’un flâneur, dont le genre de vie dissimule derrière un mirage bienfaisant la détresse des habitants futurs de nos métropoles.
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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