flegme
\flɛɡm\
The verdict
“flegme” is uncommon French (frequency #52,072 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,072
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possession de soi-même, calme d’âme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flegme · flegme · French
flegme · rank #52,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,072
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flamant
Nearest frequency peer: flamant (-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 « flegme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ficus
ficus
47,932 corpus weight
- Firewall
Firewall
47,931 corpus weight
- flamant
flamant
47,930 corpus weight
- flegme
flegme
47,929 corpus weight
- foireuse
foireuse
47,927 corpus weight
- frai
frai
47,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flegme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flegme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɛɡm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flegme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flegme is uncommon French at frequency #52,072 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɛɡm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for flegme in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flegme, spelled F-L-E-G-M-E.
Definition
- 1Possession de soi-même, calme d’âme.
- 2Lymphe.
- 3Produits aqueux de la première distillation des mélasses, des jus de betteraves ou de grains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flegme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un homme qui a un grand flegme, qui est d’un grand flegme.
Son flegme m’étonne.
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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