flashlight
\flaʃ.lajt\
The verdict
“flashlight” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lampe de poche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flashlight · flashlight · French
flashlight · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flashlight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flaʃ.lajt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flashlight » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flashlight is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \flaʃ.lajt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lampe de poche.".
Zero misspellings are on record for flashlight in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flashlight, spelled F-L-A-S-H-L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Lampe de poche.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.