andouillette
\ɑ̃.du.jɛt\
The verdict
“andouillette” is uncommon French (frequency #70,376 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,376
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de saucisse à base d’éléments du tube digestif du porc (généralement, gros intestin et estomac) ou du veau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-andouillette · andouillette · French
andouillette · rank #70,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,376
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ander
Nearest frequency peer: ander (-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 « andouillette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anabaptistes
anabaptistes
29,629 corpus weight
- ander
ander
29,626 corpus weight
- andouillette
andouillette
29,625 corpus weight
- animisme
animisme
29,624 corpus weight
- Anny
Anny
29,623 corpus weight
- anticancére…
anticancéreux
29,621 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « andouillette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | andouillette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.du.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « andouillette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
andouillette is uncommon French at frequency #70,376 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.du.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de saucisse à base d’éléments du tube digestif du porc (généralement, gros intestin et estomac) ou du veau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for andouillette in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is andouillette, spelled A-N-D-O-U-I-L-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de saucisse à base d’éléments du tube digestif du porc (généralement, gros intestin et estomac) ou du veau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how andouillette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] une tourbe de riboteurs qui venaient se repaître de galimafrées d’andouillettes et de tripes à la mode de Caen.
– Une andouillette grosse comme mon bras, voilà ce qu’il me faut. Elles sont toujours bouennes-bouennes-bouennes, les andouillettes, chez Gustave ?
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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