flux
French, noun/fly/
flux is spelled F-L-U-X (4 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flux is a French masculine noun meaning “flow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écoulement, mouvement ou déplacement, en général d’un fluide, ou de populations ; action de couler …”.
What does flux mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineflow
- 2
masculineflood, flood tide
- 3
masculineflood (an abundance of something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Écoulement, mouvement ou déplacement, en général d’un fluide, ou de populations ; action de couler ; écoulement. 2. Mouvement de la marée montante. 3. Transfert ou déplacement, de données ou d’énergie. 4. Produit qui permet de protéger de l’oxydation ou fluidifier un métal en fusion.
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.
How do you pronounce flux?
- /fly/
- /flyks/
- \fly\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flux in French?
flux appears 19 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).