statuette
/ˌstætjuˈɛt/
"statuette" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“statuette” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #46,792 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #46,792
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in te...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | statuette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌstætjuˈɛt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “statuette” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for statuette is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌstætjuˈɛt/. Corpus data places it at rank #46,792 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in te...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for statuette, with forms such as "sattuette", "sstatuette", and "stateutte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "statute", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix). The correct English form is statuette, spelled S-T-A-T-U-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
Etymology
Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sattuette,sstatuette,stateutte,stattuette,statuete,statuetet,statutete,stautette,sttatuette,sttauette,tsatuette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of statuette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “statuette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-A-T-U-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌstætjuˈɛt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “statute” - see the side-by-side comparison. statuette vs statute
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.