Flémalle
\fle.mal\
The verdict
“Flémalle” is uncommon French (frequency #80,222 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,222
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flemalle · Flémalle · French
Flémalle · rank #80,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,222
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Flosse
Nearest frequency peer: Flosse (-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 « Flémalle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Floirac
Floirac
19,782 corpus weight
- Florac
Florac
19,781 corpus weight
- Flosse
Flosse
19,780 corpus weight
- Flémalle
Flémalle
19,779 corpus weight
- fongiques
fongiques
19,777 corpus weight
- forbidden
forbidden
19,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Flémalle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Flémalle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fle.mal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Flémalle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Flémalle is uncommon French at frequency #80,222 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fle.mal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
Flémalle has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Flémalle, spelled F-L-É-M-A-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
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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