flatulence
\fla.ty.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“flatulence” 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) - État physique causé par les flatuosités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flatulence · flatulence · French
flatulence · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | flatulence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.ty.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
flatulence is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fla.ty.lɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for flatulence in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is flatulence, spelled F-L-A-T-U-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1État physique causé par les flatuosités.
- 2Accumulation de gaz dans l'intestin générant des ballonnements, et qui sont la cause des flatuosités ou pets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flatulence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout chez eux est grotesque. Leurs flatulences remplacent l’encens. Ils chantent Gloria in profundis Satani au lieu de Gloria in excelsis Deo. L’Ite missa est étant remplacé par un laus Satani.
Mon père, qui est aussi végétarien que je suis une carniste convaincue, fait souvent des blagues sur les pets des vaches : « Interdisons les flatulences aux vaches pour sauver la planète ! » Oui car les pets des vaches, c'est du méthane (CH₄).
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.