fléchir
French, verb/fle.ʃiʁ/
fléchir is spelled F-L-É-C-H-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fléchir is a French verb meaning “to bend, to fold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire ployer, courber”.
What does fléchir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bend, to fold
- 2
to bend, to bend over
- 3
to flex (eg. a muscle)
- 4
to provoke pity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire ployer, courber. 2. Amener à compassion ; toucher de pitié ; attendrir ; adoucir. 3. Plier ; se courber. 4. Se soumettre, s’abaisser.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fléchir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fléchissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fléchi participle past
- fléchis first-person indicative present
- fléchit indicative present singular
- fléchissons first-person indicative plural
- fléchissez indicative plural present
- fléchissent indicative plural present
- fléchissais first-person imperfect indicative
- fléchissait imperfect indicative singular
- fléchissions first-person imperfect indicative
- fléchissiez imperfect indicative plural
- fléchissaient imperfect indicative plural
- fléchîmes first-person historic indicative
- fléchîtes historic indicative past
- fléchirent historic indicative past
- fléchirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fléchir?
- /fle.ʃiʁ/
- \fle.ʃiʁ\
- [fle.ʃiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fléchir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fléchir in French?
fléchir appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).