alet
\ɑ.ɫet\
The verdict
“alet” is uncommon French (frequency #77,209 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,209
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument, outil, produit, ustensile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alet · alet · French
alet · rank #77,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,209
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aldéhyde
Nearest frequency peer: aldéhyde (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « alet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alcaloïde
alcaloïde
22,795 corpus weight
- alcootest
alcootest
22,794 corpus weight
- aldéhyde
aldéhyde
22,793 corpus weight
- alet
alet
22,792 corpus weight
- alluviale
alluviale
22,791 corpus weight
- amaro
amaro
22,790 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ.ɫet\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alet is uncommon French at frequency #77,209 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ.ɫet\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument, outil, produit, ustensile.".
alet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is alet, spelled A-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Instrument, outil, produit, ustensile.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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