flesh
\flɛʃ\
The verdict
“flesh” is uncommon French (frequency #82,956 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,956
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flesh · flesh · French
flesh · rank #82,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,956
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fixateur
Nearest frequency peer: fixateur (-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 « flesh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fibromes
fibromes
17,049 corpus weight
- financez
financez
17,048 corpus weight
- Fismes
Fismes
17,047 corpus weight
- fixateur
fixateur
17,046 corpus weight
- flesh
flesh
17,045 corpus weight
- flottage
flottage
17,043 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flesh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flesh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flesh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flesh is uncommon French at frequency #82,956 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for flesh in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is flesh, spelled F-L-E-S-H.
Definition
- 1Chair.
- 2Chair.
- 3Viande.
- 4Couleur chair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flesh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
five Pieces of dry’d Goat’s Flesh
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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