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Definition: Flair |
FlairNoun1. A natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating". 2. Distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flair" was first used: sometime around 1390. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | FLAIR |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FLAIR | English | Flow Analysis in Industrial Research | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FlairSynonyms: dash (n), elan (n), genius (n), panache (n), style (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flair |
| English words defined with "flair": genius. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flair": IBM 650. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flair" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (acumen, flair, nose, smell), German (atmosphere, aura, flair). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A classic wrestling match between the likes of Flair and Steamboat, or a midget jerking off in a garbage can (NWA: Total Nonstop Action; writing credit: Jerry Jarrett; Vince Russo) You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge) Blair has no flair for savoir faire (The Phantom President; writing credit: Walter DeLeon; Harlan Thompson) | |
Lyrics | Debonairre with flair, I scare wear and tear (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) Because er hatte Flair (Rock Me Amadeus; performing artist: Falco) We ran on the beach with kennedy flair (Summerfling; performing artist: K.d. lang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Flair i Belgien (1976) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Flair" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.32% of the time. "Flair" is used about 299 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.32% | 291 | 17,055 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.01% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 299 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "flair" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Flair | Last name | 200 | 38,027 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ric flair | 298 | the nature boy ric flair | 7 |
flair | 166 | hair flair | 7 |
flair rick | 84 | flair air purifier | 7 |
flair bartending | 65 | flair solar | 7 |
david flair | 33 | flair ric sound | 6 |
vanity flair | 30 | bio flair ric | 6 |
flair cleaners | 24 | artisan flair inc | 6 |
b b flair red | 23 | biography flair ric | 6 |
flair home | 18 | estate flair real | 6 |
flair magazine | 17 | danielle flair | 6 |
bar flair | 16 | flair photo ric | 6 |
fleetwood flair | 14 | chris flair | 6 |
flair picture ric | 14 | flair it | 6 |
flair motor home | 13 | living air flair | 6 |
bartender flair | 13 | flair haro mirra | 5 |
flair bottle | 13 | flair model | 5 |
flair quote ric | 12 | artisan flair | 5 |
frigidaire flair | 10 | antonio flair home san | 5 |
flair pic ric | 10 | acecat flair | 5 |
flair ric wallpaper | 8 | fashion flair | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "flair"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veçori (characteristic, distinction, exclusiveness, feature, peculiar feature, peculiarity, retreat, singularity, speciality, trait), prirje (affinity, aptitude, bent, current, disposition, drift, fondness, gift, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, mission, penchant, proclivity, propensity, run, set, taste, tendency, trend, vocation), dhunti (aptitude, dower, dowry, gift, talent), aftësi (ability, aptitude). (various references) | |
Arabic | ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), موهبة (aptitude, capability, endowment, facility, genius, gift, instinct, knack, skill, talent, vocation), أسلوب (archaism, character, diction, genre, language, manner, method, mode, pattern, phraseology, regimen, sort, strain, style, stylization, technique, tone). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усет (eye, feel, feeling, good sense, nose, prehension, sense, sensibility), способност (ability, aptness, bump, capability, capacity, competence, competency, efficiency, faculty, fitness, notion, power, quality, sufficiency, turn), нюх (nose), дарба (ability, appanage, aptitude, competence, competency, dowry, endowment, faculty, genius, gift). (various references) | |
Czech | tušení (guess, hunch, inkling, notion, presentiment, suspicion, vibes). (various references) | |
French | flair. (various references) | |
German | gespür, Spürsinn (feel, nose, serendipity), Fingerspitzengefühl (sure instinct). (various references) | |
Greek | κλίση (inclination, gradient, inflection, inflexion, slope, tilt), φυσικό ταλάντο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוש טבעי (instinct), כשרון (ability, aptitude, capability, competence, endowment, facility, genius, gift, knack, talent), כשרונות (talent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szimat (nose, scent, sense of smell, vent). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bakat alam. (various references) | |
Italian | fiuto (nose), intuizione (intuition). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 閃き (flash, insight). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひらめき (flash, insight). (various references) | |
Manx | schlei (ability, adroitness, art, attainment, forte, know-how, skill, talent, virtuosity), gioot (endowment, gift, grant, present). (various references) | |
Norwegian | teft, nese (nose), eleganse (elegance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | faro (trail, wind), olfato (nose, smell), gosto (taste, like, savour). (various references) | |
Romanian | fler (scent, smell), perspicacitate (acumen, insight, perspicacity, sagacity, vision). (various references) | |
Russian | нюх (nose, scent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | talenat (aptitude, gift, knack, talent), njuh (scent). (various references) | |
Spanish | talento bueno (dower, turn), olfato (nose, scent, smell), instinto (access, impetus, impulse, instinct), aptitud (ability, aptitude). (various references) | |
Swedish | väderkorn (scent), fin näsa. (various references) | |
Thai | เก๋, พรสวรรค์ (gift). (various references) | |
Turkish | yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), sezme (anticipation, discernment, divination, inkling, insight, perception, percipience, precognition, sense), sezgi (acumen, discernment, feel, feeling, instinct, intuition, perception, sentience), kabiliyet (accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, dower, faculty, gift, instinct, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чуття (feel, feelings, intuition, nose, sense), нюх (nose, olfaction, scent, smell, smelling), здатність (ability, capability, facility, skill, sufficiency). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tinh, sự thính. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | fragrare. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | flair. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flair": flairs. (additional references) | |
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"Flair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aflaqi, fafir, faif, fairt, falar, Faleiro, faliar, falid, faqir, flacit, flaid, flaire, flairi, flar, flauer, flaur, flawier, flior, flir, flirk, flirp, Fluria, Foawr, frair, plair. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flair" (pronounced fle"r) |
| 4 | f l e" r | flare. |
| 3 | -l e" r | blare, declare, glare, lair, Lehr. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: filar, frail. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: alif, aril, fail, fair, farl, fiar, fila, lair, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial. | |
-2 letters: ail, air, arf, far, fil, fir, lar, ria, rif. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, ar, fa, if, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: fairly, ferial, flairs, foliar, frails, frazil. | |
+2 letters: airflow, airfoil, airlift, aliform, bifilar, clarify, failure, fibular, figural, filaree, filaria, flakier, flamier, flaring, flawier, flaxier, fragile, frailer, frailly, frailty, frazils, friable, friarly, leafier. | |
+3 letters: aerofoil, afebrile, airfield, airflows, airfoils, airlifts, balefire, barflies, craftily, draftily, failures, fairlead, familiar, farcical, faultier, featlier, fibrilla, filagree, filarees, filariae, filarial, filarian, filariid, filature, filmcard, filtrate, fimbrial, finagler, fireable, fireball, fireclay, firehall, firewall, fistular, flabbier, flaggier, flanerie, flappier, flashier, flatiron, floatier, fluidram, forbidal, foresail, formalin, fornical, frailest, franklin, fraulein, freakily, infernal, inflamer, inflater, inflator, informal, infrugal, prefixal, raffling, rainfall, rifleman, taffrail, trainful, trifocal, unfairly, unifilar, weariful. | |
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