calculette

/\kal.ky.lɛt\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#47,766

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

calculette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Calculatrice électronique de petite dimension. Pronounced \kal.ky.lɛt\. Often confused with calculée and calculent.

Key facts for calculette
PropertyValue
Headwordcalculette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kal.ky.lɛt\
Letters10
Frequency rank#47,766
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for calculette is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.ky.lɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,766 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Calculatrice électronique de petite dimension.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for calculette, with forms such as "aclculette", "caclulette", and "calcculette". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "calculée", "calculent", 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 calculette, spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Calculatrice électronique de petite dimension.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aclculette,caclulette,calcculette,calcluette,calcueltte,calculete,calculetet,calcullette,calcultete,callculette,caluclette,ccalculette,claculette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calculette

Misspelling Variants of "calculette"

aclculette10caclulette10calcculette11calcluette10calcueltte10calculete9calculetet10calcullette11
Misspelling Variants of "calculette"

Frequency rank: #47,766 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "calculette"?
"calculette" is spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kal.ky.lɛt\.
What does "calculette" mean?
As a noun, "calculette" means: Calculatrice électronique de petite dimension.
What words are commonly confused with "calculette"?
"calculette" is commonly confused with "calculée", "calculent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "calculette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "calculette" is \kal.ky.lɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "calculette" come from?
"calculette" 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.