flick
\flɪk\
The verdict
“flick” is uncommon French (frequency #80,217 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,217
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de flicken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flick · flick · French
flick · rank #80,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,217
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fleischer
Nearest frequency peer: Fleischer (-2 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 « flick »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flashe
flashe
19,788 corpus weight
- flavonoïdes
flavonoïdes
19,787 corpus weight
- Fleischer
Fleischer
19,786 corpus weight
- flick
flick
19,784 corpus weight
- Floirac
Floirac
19,782 corpus weight
- Florac
Florac
19,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flick » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flɪk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flick » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flick is uncommon French at frequency #80,217 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de flicken.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for flick in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flick, spelled F-L-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de flicken.
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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