fleur
French, noun/flœʁ/
fleur is spelled F-L-E-U-R (5 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,526th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fleur is a French feminine noun meaning “flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Organe reproducteur des angiospermes (ou « plantes à fleurs »), constitué des organes de la reproduction…”.
What does fleur mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineflower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
Je suis allé cueillir une fleur dans les champs.
- 2
feminineflowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself
Les orchidées sont des fleurs recherchées.
- 3
femininea kind favor given by one person to another
Il m’a fait une fleur.
- 4
femininethe best of something
Voici la fine fleur de la jeunesse française.
- 5
femininethe virginity of a woman
- 6
archaicfeminineSubstances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation
Fleurs de soufre, de zinc, d’arsenic, d’antimoine.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Organe reproducteur des angiospermes (ou « plantes à fleurs »), constitué des organes de la reproduction sexuée (étamines, carpelles) et de leurs enveloppes protectrices (sépales, pétales). 2. La plante à fleurs elle-même. 3. Motif décoratif qui imite ces fleurs. 4. Service rendu aimablement par une personne à une autre.
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 fleur
- fleurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fleur?
- /flœʁ/
- \flœʁ\
- [yn̪ fl̪œːʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fleur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fleur in French?
fleur appears 22 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).