flop
French, noun/flɔp/
flop is spelled F-L-O-P (4 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 19,772nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flop is a French masculine noun meaning “flop (failure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Échec, en particulier d’œuvre artistique ou d’entreprise commerciale”.
What does flop mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineflop (failure)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Échec, en particulier d’œuvre artistique ou d’entreprise commerciale.
noun: 1. Bruit bref provoqué par une adhésion ou désadhésion, souvent en présence d’eau.
noun: 1. Opération arithmétique en virgule flottante. 2. Opération arithmétique en virgule flottante par seconde.
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 flop
- flops plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flop?
- /flɔp/
- \flɔp\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flop
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flop in French?
flop appears 2.1 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).