flexion
French, noun/flɛk.sjɔ̃/
flexion is spelled F-L-E-X-I-O-N (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 31,386th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flexion is a French feminine noun meaning “inflection” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de ce qui est fléchi”.
What does flexion mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinflection
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de ce qui est fléchi. 2. Déformation élastique d’un solide soumis à une force perpendiculaire à sa longueur. 3. Action de fléchir, en parlant de certains muscles ou de certaines articulations. 4. Modification de la forme d’un mot par rapport à ce qui est considéré comme sa forme de base, par exemple par la mise au pluriel, par la conjugaison, par la déclinaison, etc.
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 flexion
- flexions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flexion?
- /flɛk.sjɔ̃/
- \flɛk.sjɔ̃\
- \flek.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flexion
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flexion in French?
flexion appears 1.0 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).