flic-flac
The verdict
“flic-flac” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Figure de gymnastique ou d'acrobatie au sol ou à la poutre qui consiste à faire un saut par renversement arrière ou avant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flic-flac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flic-flac” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for flic-flac is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Figure de gymnastique ou d'acrobatie au sol ou à la poutre qui consiste à faire un saut par renversement arrière ou avant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for flic-flac in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flic-flac, spelled F-L-I-C---F-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Figure de gymnastique ou d'acrobatie au sol ou à la poutre qui consiste à faire un saut par renversement arrière ou avant.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “flic-flac”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-L-I-C---F-L-A-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.