billet

/\bi.jɛ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,760

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

billet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit écrit que l’on adresse à quelqu’un ; petite lettre missive dans laquelle on peut se dispenser des formules de compliments utilisées dans les lettres. Pronounced \bi.jɛ\. It ranks #2,760 in French word frequency. Often confused with bulle and Billy.

Key facts for billet
PropertyValue
Headwordbillet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bi.jɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,760
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of billet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for billet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.jɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,760 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for billet, with forms such as "bbillet", "bilelt", and "bilet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bulle", "Billy", "bills", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is billet, spelled B-I-L-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit écrit que l’on adresse à quelqu’un ; petite lettre missive dans laquelle on peut se dispenser des formules de compliments utilisées dans les lettres.
  2. 2
    Écrits imprimés ou à la main, par lesquels on informe les particuliers ou le public de diverses choses.
  3. 3
    Écrit, promesse par laquelle on s’oblige de payer une certaine somme.
  4. 4
    Carte ou petit écrit qui donne entrée dans quelque lieu, à quelque spectacle, à quelque assemblée ou accès dans un train, etc.
  5. 5
    Bulletin de vote.
  6. 6
    Bulletins délivrés aux personnes qui prennent part à une loterie.
  7. 7
    Billet de banque.
  8. 8
    Effet de commerce.
  9. 9
    Somme de mille francs, avant 1960, de dix francs ensuite.
  10. 10
    Note ou article publié dans un blogue ou un forum.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbillet,bilelt,bilet,billett,billte,blilet,ibllet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for billet

Misspelling Variants of "billet"

bbillet7bilelt6bilet5billett7billte6blilet6ibllet6
Misspelling Variants of "billet"

Frequency rank: #2,760 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "billet"?
"billet" is spelled B-I-L-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bi.jɛ\.
What does "billet" mean?
As a noun, "billet" means: Petit écrit que l’on adresse à quelqu’un ; petite lettre missive dans laquelle on peut se dispenser des formules de compliments utilisées dans les lettres.
What words are commonly confused with "billet"?
"billet" is commonly confused with "bulle", "Billy", "bills". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "billet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "billet" is \bi.jɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "billet" come from?
"billet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.