billette
\bi.jɛt\
The verdict
“billette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit écriteau qu’on met aux endroits où un péage est établi pour avertir les passants d’acquitter le droit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-billette · billette · French
billette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « billette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
billette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for billette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is billette, spelled B-I-L-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit écriteau qu’on met aux endroits où un péage est établi pour avertir les passants d’acquitter le droit.
- 2Pièce constatant qu’on a acquitté les droits de douane ; on parle aussi d'acquit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how billette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« As-tu une billette ? » dit-il. Comme Angelo ne comprenait pas, il lui expliqua que c’était une sorte de passeport que le maire du village devait lui donner et sans lequel on ne le laisserait pas passer.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.