flegmatique
\flɛɡ.ma.tik\
The verdict
“flegmatique” is uncommon French (frequency #76,582 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,582
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se départ rarement de son calme, qui s’émeut difficilement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flegmatique · flegmatique · French
flegmatique · rank #76,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,582
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flouté
Nearest frequency peer: flouté (+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 « flegmatique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fions
fions
23,423 corpus weight
- fir
fir
23,422 corpus weight
- flambent
flambent
23,421 corpus weight
- flegmatique
flegmatique
23,419 corpus weight
- flouté
flouté
23,418 corpus weight
- Flunch
Flunch
23,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flegmatique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flegmatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \flɛɡ.ma.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flegmatique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flegmatique is uncommon French at frequency #76,582 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \flɛɡ.ma.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for flegmatique in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flegmatique, spelled F-L-E-G-M-A-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se départ rarement de son calme, qui s’émeut difficilement.
- 2Lymphatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flegmatique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] il est peu réconfortant pour un voyageur, si flegmatique qu’il soit, d’apprendre qu’à l’endroit même où il est, le pied glissa à un autre, et que cet autre s’est tué.
Le speaker psalmodiait les nouvelles de la nuit avec cette distinction flegmatique qui entretiendrait encore longtemps l’illusion de la grandeur britannique.
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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