flirt
French, noun/flœʁt/
flirt is spelled F-L-I-R-T (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flirt is a French masculine noun meaning “an episode of (or the act of) flirting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cour amoureuse, généralement avec une connotation sexuelle, mais de façon légère et généralement sans but de…”.
What does flirt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean episode of (or the act of) flirting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cour amoureuse, généralement avec une connotation sexuelle, mais de façon légère et généralement sans but de relation à long terme. 2. Relation plus ou moins suivie. 3. Personne avec qui on fait la cour.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of flirt
- flirts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flirt?
- /flœʁt/
- \flœʁt\
- \fliʁt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flirt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flirt in French?
flirt appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).