billettes
\bi.jɛt\
The verdict
“billettes” is uncommon French (frequency #89,452 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,452
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de billette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-billettes · billettes · French
billettes · rank #89,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,452
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bilel
Nearest frequency peer: Bilel (-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 « billettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BERD
BERD
10,554 corpus weight
- Bessy
Bessy
10,552 corpus weight
- Bilel
Bilel
10,550 corpus weight
- billettes
billettes
10,549 corpus weight
- bioniques
bioniques
10,546 corpus weight
- Biraben
Biraben
10,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « billettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « billettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
billettes is uncommon French at frequency #89,452 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de billette.".
Zero misspellings are on record for billettes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 billettes, spelled B-I-L-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de billette.
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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