conter fleurette
\kɔ̃.te flœ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“conter fleurette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chercher à séduire quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conter-fleurette · conter fleurette · French
conter fleurette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | conter fleurette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.te flœ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « conter fleurette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
conter fleurette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.te flœ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
conter fleurette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is conter fleurette, spelled C-O-N-T-E-R- -F-L-E-U-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Chercher à séduire quelqu’un.
- 2Chercher à convaincre, à obtenir l’aval de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conter fleurette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Habillée en capitaine de cavalerie, et masquée, j’ai conté fleurette à la plus belle dame de l’assemblée. J’avais droit de m’applaudir de mes succès galans lorsque trois rivaux, oui, trois, sont venus me défier d’une manière très-peu courtoise.
La Nouvelle Héloïse présente une sorte de cours de l’art de conter fleurette, et ceux que le ciel, à défaut d’esprit, a du moins gratinés de mémoire, y trouvent encore des élémens de succès.
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.