flicaille
\fli.kaj\
The verdict
“flicaille” is uncommon French (frequency #93,780 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,780
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Police, groupe de flics ou les flics en général.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flicaille · flicaille · French
flicaille · rank #93,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,780
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flibustier
Nearest frequency peer: flibustier (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flicaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fissiles
fissiles
6,225 corpus weight
- flibustier
flibustier
6,222 corpus weight
- flicaille
flicaille
6,221 corpus weight
- flyboard
flyboard
6,219 corpus weight
- foils
foils
6,217 corpus weight
- follets
follets
6,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flicaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flicaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fli.kaj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flicaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flicaille is uncommon French at frequency #93,780 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fli.kaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Police, groupe de flics ou les flics en général.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for flicaille, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flicaille, spelled F-L-I-C-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Police, groupe de flics ou les flics en général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flicaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je bouquine des romans policiers pour passer le temps et oublier ma déconvenue, mais les auteurs de romans sont tous des lavedus qui ne connaissent rien aux choses de la flicaille.
Pas de doute, la flicaille allait pas tarder à retrouver son identité, son père avait déjà dû porter le deuil auprès des zigouigouis de Maubeuge et il y coupait pas de retourner dans cette ville de chiens entre deux pandores.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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