flanker
French, noun/flɑ̃.ke/
flanker is spelled F-L-A-N-K-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flanker is a French masculine noun meaning “flanker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Synonyme de troisième ligne aile”.
What does flanker mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineflanker
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Synonyme de troisième ligne aile. 2. Parfum dérivé d’un parfum d’origine de renom, en en reprenant diverses caractéristiques comme le schéma olfactif et une partie du nom, dans le but de relancer la demande en offrant un parfum nouveau tout en capitalisant sur la popularité de l’original.
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 flanker
- flankers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flanker?
- /flɑ̃.ke/
- \flɑ̃.kœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flanker in French?
flanker appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).