flouer
French, verb/flu.e/
flouer is spelled F-L-O-U-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flouer is a French verb meaning “to swindle, con” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voler en escroquant, duper, filouter, rouler”.
What does flouer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swindle, con
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Voler en escroquant, duper, filouter, rouler. 2. Tromper moralement quelqu'un. 3. Voler, subtiliser quelque chose à quelqu'un. 4. Tricher en jouant.
verb: 1. Variante rare de flouter (rendre volontairement flou).
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 flouer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flouant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- floué participle past
- floue first-person indicative present
- floues indicative present second-person
- flouons first-person indicative plural
- flouez indicative plural present
- flouent indicative plural present
- flouais first-person imperfect indicative
- flouait imperfect indicative singular
- flouions first-person imperfect indicative
- flouiez imperfect indicative plural
- flouaient imperfect indicative plural
- flouai first-person historic indicative
- flouas historic indicative past
- floua historic indicative past
- flouâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flouer?
- /flu.e/
- \flu.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flouer in French?
flouer appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).