burette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#98,840
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
burette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit vase à goulot et à anse, propre à contenir du vinaigre, de l’huile, etc. Pronounced \by.ʁɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for burette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \by.ʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #98,840 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for burette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 burette, spelled B-U-R-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit vase à goulot et à anse, propre à contenir du vinaigre, de l’huile, etc.
- 2Petit vase où l’on met le vin et l’eau qui servent à la messe.
- 3Instrument de laboratoire permettant d'ajouter au goutte-à-goutte un réactif dont le dosage doit être précis.
- 4Testicule.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #98,840 in French
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