fleurir
French, verb/flœ.ʁiʁ/
fleurir is spelled F-L-E-U-R-I-R (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fleurir is a French verb meaning “to flower; to produce flowers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire des fleurs, se couvrir de fleurs, ou être en fleurs”.
What does fleurir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flower; to produce flowers
- 2
to bloom
- 3
to flourish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire des fleurs, se couvrir de fleurs, ou être en fleurs. 2. Être dans un état de prospérité, de splendeur ; être en crédit, en honneur, en réputation. 3. Se développer, apparaître. 4. Parer d’une fleur, d’un bouquet.
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 fleurir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fleurissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fleuri participle past
- fleuris first-person indicative present
- fleurit indicative present singular
- fleurissons first-person indicative plural
- fleurissez indicative plural present
- fleurissent indicative plural present
- fleurissais first-person imperfect indicative
- fleurissait imperfect indicative singular
- fleurissions first-person imperfect indicative
- fleurissiez imperfect indicative plural
- fleurissaient imperfect indicative plural
- fleurîmes first-person historic indicative
- fleurîtes historic indicative past
- fleurirent historic indicative past
- fleurirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fleurir?
- /flœ.ʁiʁ/
- \flœ.ʁiʁ\
- [flœ.ʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fleurir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fleurir in French?
fleurir appears 1.5 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).