flins
\flɛ̃\
The verdict
“flins” is uncommon French (frequency #84,809 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,809
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flins · flins · French
flins · rank #84,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,809
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flashball
Nearest frequency peer: flashball (-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 « flins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fiorentino
fiorentino
15,195 corpus weight
- flashball
flashball
15,193 corpus weight
- flins
flins
15,192 corpus weight
- flottabilité
flottabilité
15,191 corpus weight
- floués
floués
15,190 corpus weight
- Foued
Foued
15,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flins is uncommon French at frequency #84,809 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de flint.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for flins in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is flins, spelled F-L-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flint.
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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