flanquer
French, verb/flɑ̃.ke/
flanquer is spelled F-L-A-N-Q-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,913th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flanquer is a French verb meaning “to flank, adjoin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Construire, élever la partie d’une fortification qui en voit une autre et qui lui sert de défense”.
What does flanquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flank, adjoin
- 2
colloquialto fling, chuck
- 3
colloquialto give
- 4
to stay by (someone's) side, to be someone's right-hand man
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Construire, élever la partie d’une fortification qui en voit une autre et qui lui sert de défense. 2. Être en cette situation, en parlant des ouvrages ainsi disposés et de la partie d’une fortification ainsi disposée. 3. Garnir sur le flanc, les flancs. 4. Placer en flanc, à côté de quelque chose, en parlant d’objets.
verb: 1. Lancer, jeter, appliquer brusquement.
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 flanquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flanquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flanqué participle past
- flanque first-person indicative present
- flanques indicative present second-person
- flanquons first-person indicative plural
- flanquez indicative plural present
- flanquent indicative plural present
- flanquais first-person imperfect indicative
- flanquait imperfect indicative singular
- flanquions first-person imperfect indicative
- flanquiez imperfect indicative plural
- flanquaient imperfect indicative plural
- flanquai first-person historic indicative
- flanquas historic indicative past
- flanqua historic indicative past
- flanquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flanquer?
- /flɑ̃.ke/
- \flɑ̃.ke\
- [flɑ̃.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flanquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flanquer in French?
flanquer appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).