fleurer
French, verb/flœ.ʁe/
fleurer is spelled F-L-E-U-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fleurer is a French verb meaning “to give off (an odor)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Répandre une odeur ; exhaler une odeur”.
What does fleurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to give off (an odor)
- 2
to waft
- 3
to smell, catch a waft of
- 4
to sprinkle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Répandre une odeur ; exhaler une odeur. 2. Évoquer. 3. Répandre une fine couche de farine sur un plan de travail afin d’éviter qu’il ne colle excessivement.
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 fleurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fleurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fleuré participle past
- fleure first-person indicative present
- fleures indicative present second-person
- fleurons first-person indicative plural
- fleurez indicative plural present
- fleurent indicative plural present
- fleurais first-person imperfect indicative
- fleurait imperfect indicative singular
- fleurions first-person imperfect indicative
- fleuriez imperfect indicative plural
- fleuraient imperfect indicative plural
- fleurai first-person historic indicative
- fleuras historic indicative past
- fleura historic indicative past
- fleurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fleurer?
- /flœ.ʁe/
- \flœ.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fleurer in French?
fleurer appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).