billet
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Petit 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.
- 2Écrits imprimés ou à la main, par lesquels on informe les particuliers ou le public de diverses choses.
- 3Écrit, promesse par laquelle on s’oblige de payer une certaine somme.
- 4Carte ou petit écrit qui donne entrée dans quelque lieu, à quelque spectacle, à quelque assemblée ou accès dans un train, etc.
- 5Bulletin de vote.
- 6Bulletins délivrés aux personnes qui prennent part à une loterie.
- 7Billet de banque.
- 8Effet de commerce.
- 9Somme de mille francs, avant 1960, de dix francs ensuite.
- 10Note ou article publié dans un blogue ou un forum.
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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"
Frequency rank: #2,760 in French
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Nearby French words
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