Flavie
\fla.vi\
The verdict
“Flavie” is uncommon French (frequency #50,218 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,218
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flavie · Flavie · French
Flavie · rank #50,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,218
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Flavia
Nearest frequency peer: Flavia (-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 « Flavie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fjords
fjords
49,786 corpus weight
- flashy
flashy
49,785 corpus weight
- Flavia
Flavia
49,784 corpus weight
- Flavie
Flavie
49,783 corpus weight
- Flavius
Flavius
49,782 corpus weight
- foresterie
foresterie
49,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Flavie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Flavie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fla.vi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Flavie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Flavie is uncommon French at frequency #50,218 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fla.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Flavie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Flavie, spelled F-L-A-V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Flavie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Flavie admira cet être caméléonesque : un genou en terre, les mains en croix sur la poitrine et les yeux levés vers le ciel, dans une extase religieuse, il récitait une prière, il était le catholique le plus fervent, il se signa.
« On a compris qu’on pouvait faire beaucoup de choses chez soi, en autonomie », ajoute Flavie Prévot, vice-présidente du collectif de free-lances Fleet.
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); 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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