bandelettes
\bɑ̃d.lɛt\
The verdict
“bandelettes” is uncommon French (frequency #50,078 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,078
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bandelette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandelettes · bandelettes · French
bandelettes · rank #50,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,078
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH ballottage
Nearest frequency peer: ballottage (-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 « bandelettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bagnols
Bagnols
49,925 corpus weight
- ballottage
ballottage
49,924 corpus weight
- bandelettes
bandelettes
49,923 corpus weight
- bands
bands
49,922 corpus weight
- baobab
baobab
49,921 corpus weight
- barracuda
barracuda
49,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bandelettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandelettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃d.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bandelettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bandelettes is uncommon French at frequency #50,078 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃d.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bandelette.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bandelettes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bandelettes, spelled B-A-N-D-E-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bandelette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bandelettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le manuscrit trouvé sur le corps de Pétéménon, fils de Cléopâtre, était placé entre les premiers tours des bandelettes, mais de manière à être visible lorsqu'on ôtait le couvercle du sarcophage peint qui renfermait la momie proprement dite.
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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