flashmob
\flaʃ.mɔb\
The verdict
“flashmob” is uncommon French (frequency #91,698 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,698
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rassemblement de personnes dans un lieu public pour y effectuer des actions convenues d’avance, avant de se disperser rapidement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flashmob · flashmob · French
flashmob · rank #91,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,698
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flies
Nearest frequency peer: flies (+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 « flashmob »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrugineux
ferrugineux
8,307 corpus weight
- fiscalisati…
fiscalisation
8,305 corpus weight
- flashmob
flashmob
8,303 corpus weight
- flies
flies
8,302 corpus weight
- foisonne
foisonne
8,299 corpus weight
- foliaires
foliaires
8,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flashmob » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flashmob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flaʃ.mɔb\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flashmob » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flashmob is uncommon French at frequency #91,698 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flaʃ.mɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rassemblement de personnes dans un lieu public pour y effectuer des actions convenues d’avance, avant de se disperser rapidement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for flashmob in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is flashmob, spelled F-L-A-S-H-M-O-B.
Definition
- 1Rassemblement de personnes dans un lieu public pour y effectuer des actions convenues d’avance, avant de se disperser rapidement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flashmob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une flashmob devant réunir mille danseurs et des musiciens est annoncée samedi, à 14 h, à Hazebrouck.
Synonyms
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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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