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How to spell flamboyant

flamboyant

Not flamboyent.

The trap

-ant or -ent

The word flamboyant ends -ant, and the misspelling flamboyent writes the ending as -ent. The ending is unstressed and sounds the same either way, and flamboyance keeps the A.

-ant and -ent are the same sound when the syllable is unstressed. Which one a word takes is usually learned with the word, and its -ance or -ence relative keeps the same vowel (confident, confidence).

What it means

Tending to attract attention.

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