flexion sur jambes
\flɛk.sjɔ̃ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\
The verdict
“flexion sur jambes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mouvement d’accroupissement, parfois répété, avec ou sans charge sur les épaules.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flexion sur jambes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɛk.sjɔ̃ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flexion sur jambes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flexion sur jambes is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \flɛk.sjɔ̃ syʁ ʒɑ̃b\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for flexion sur jambes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is flexion sur jambes, spelled F-L-E-X-I-O-N- -S-U-R- -J-A-M-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mouvement d’accroupissement, parfois répété, avec ou sans charge sur les épaules.
- 2Exercice d’assouplissement ou de musculation comprenant une série de mouvements ainsi exécutés.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is F-L-E-X-I-O-N- -S-U-R- -J-A-M-B-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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