flirtant
\flœʁ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“flirtant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,842 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,842
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de flirter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flirtant · flirtant · French
flirtant · rank #69,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,842
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FLQ
Nearest frequency peer: FLQ (+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 « flirtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fiduciaires
fiduciaires
30,162 corpus weight
- fient
fient
30,161 corpus weight
- flirtant
flirtant
30,159 corpus weight
- FLQ
FLQ
30,158 corpus weight
- fluid
fluid
30,157 corpus weight
- foireuses
foireuses
30,156 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flirtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flirtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flœʁ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flirtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flirtant is uncommon French at frequency #69,842 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flœʁ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de flirter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for flirtant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flirtant, spelled F-L-I-R-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de flirter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flirtant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certes, je n’étais pas une sainte car, de mon côté, le mariage me servait à m’émanciper et, Denis étant en mer, j’en profitais pour aller danser en boite avec mon amie Béatrice, flirtant un peu avec des jeunes gens qui me plaisaient et, quand ils me donnaient rendez-vous, je leur disais m’appeler Natacha leur faisant ainsi faux bond !
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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