flashe
\flaʃ\
The verdict
“flashe” is uncommon French (frequency #80,213 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,213
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de flasher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flashe · flashe · French
flashe · rank #80,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,213
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flap
Nearest frequency peer: flap (-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 « flashe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filler
filler
19,791 corpus weight
- finito
finito
19,790 corpus weight
- flap
flap
19,789 corpus weight
- flashe
flashe
19,788 corpus weight
- flavonoïdes
flavonoïdes
19,787 corpus weight
- Fleischer
Fleischer
19,786 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flashe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flashe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flaʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flashe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flashe is uncommon French at frequency #80,213 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flaʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
flashe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flashe, spelled F-L-A-S-H-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de flasher.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de flasher.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de flasher.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de flasher.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de flasher.
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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