bandelette
\bɑ̃d.lɛt\
The verdict
“bandelette” is uncommon French (frequency #63,544 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,544
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément en forme de petite bande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandelette · bandelette · French
bandelette · rank #63,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,544
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bananiers
Nearest frequency peer: bananiers (-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 « bandelette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aérobie
aérobie
36,461 corpus weight
- aéronavale
aéronavale
36,460 corpus weight
- bananiers
bananiers
36,458 corpus weight
- bandelette
bandelette
36,457 corpus weight
- Banville
Banville
36,456 corpus weight
- Bartholomew
Bartholomew
36,454 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bandelette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandelette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃d.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bandelette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bandelette is uncommon French at frequency #63,544 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃d.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bandelette, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bandelette, spelled B-A-N-D-E-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Élément en forme de petite bande.
- 2Petite bande avec laquelle on entoure et on lie quelque chose.
- 3Petite bande dont les prêtres païens se ceignaient le front ou qui servaient à orner les victimes.
- 4Petite moulure plate et unie, plus étroite encore que la plate-bande.
- 5Bande de tissu qui entoure les momies égyptiennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandelette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout au fond à gauche, une bandelette d’un azur plus foncé, ébréchée çà et là, indique une chaîne de montagnes, les Vosges sans doute.
[…], et elle enroula tout autour une bandelette verte trois fois croisée afin d'en exalter les reflets par la soie.
This word in other languages
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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