flanque
\flɑ̃k\
The verdict
“flanque” is uncommon French (frequency #77,525 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,525
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à la vergue de l’ancre. Ce terme est généralement utilisé quand l’émail de la flanque est différent du reste de l’ancre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flanque · flanque · French
flanque · rank #77,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,525
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flicage
Nearest frequency peer: flicage (+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 « flanque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Feurs
Feurs
22,480 corpus weight
- financeur
financeur
22,478 corpus weight
- flanque
flanque
22,476 corpus weight
- flicage
flicage
22,475 corpus weight
- fournirent
fournirent
22,473 corpus weight
- fourvoyé
fourvoyé
22,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flanque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flanque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɑ̃k\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flanque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flanque is uncommon French at frequency #77,525 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɑ̃k\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à la vergue de l’ancre. Ce terme est généralement utilisé quand l’émail de la flanque est différent du reste de l’ancre.".
flanque doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flanque, spelled F-L-A-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à la vergue de l’ancre. Ce terme est généralement utilisé quand l’émail de la flanque est différent du reste de l’ancre.
Synonyms
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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