attelée
\a.tə.le\
The verdict
“attelée” is uncommon French (frequency #67,292 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,292
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps pendant lequel les animaux de trait restent attelés pour tirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attelee · attelée · French
attelée · rank #67,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,292
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aurelia
Nearest frequency peer: Aurelia (+2 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 « attelée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arrosant
arrosant
32,714 corpus weight
- aspic
aspic
32,712 corpus weight
- attelée
attelée
32,709 corpus weight
- Aurelia
Aurelia
32,707 corpus weight
- autobiograp…
autobiographies
32,706 corpus weight
- autodidactes
autodidactes
32,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attelée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attelée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tə.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attelée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attelée is uncommon French at frequency #67,292 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.tə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for attelée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is attelée, spelled A-T-T-E-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Temps pendant lequel les animaux de trait restent attelés pour tirer.
- 2Temps de travail entre deux périodes de repos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attelée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je comptais souvent le nombre des sillons labourés au cours de l’attelée, et je supputais approximativement, par comparaison au travail des jours précédents, à quel moment il serait temps de partir.
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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