flerte
Portuguese, noun
flerte is spelled F-L-E-R-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,194th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flerte is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “flirt (instance of flirting, courting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of flertar. With an accent, flêrte is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1973 in Portugal)…”.
What does flerte mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculineflirt (instance of flirting, courting)
- 2
Brazilmasculineflirtation; courtship
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1973 in Portugal) of flerte
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of flerte
- flertes plural
- flêrte alternative
- flarte alternative
- flêrtes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is flerte in Portuguese?
flerte appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).