fleurant
\flœ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“fleurant” is uncommon French (frequency #96,932 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,932
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de fleurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fleurant · fleurant · French
fleurant · rank #96,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,932
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Flessel
Nearest frequency peer: Flessel (-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 « fleurant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- finissante
finissante
3,072 corpus weight
- flemmarde
flemmarde
3,071 corpus weight
- Flessel
Flessel
3,070 corpus weight
- fleurant
fleurant
3,069 corpus weight
- fleurent
fleurent
3,068 corpus weight
- flottilles
flottilles
3,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fleurant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flœ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fleurant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fleurant is uncommon French at frequency #96,932 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flœ.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de fleurer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fleurant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fleurant, spelled F-L-E-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de fleurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fleurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il occupait un bureau tapissé d’affiches, et fleurant la sciure, pour peu qu’on reniflât avec ardeur.
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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