cordelette
\kɔʁ.də.lɛt\
The verdict
“cordelette” is uncommon French (frequency #70,503 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,503
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute petite corde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cordelette · cordelette · French
cordelette · rank #70,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,503
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convertibilité
Nearest frequency peer: convertibilité (-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 « cordelette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contremaîtr…
contremaîtres
29,501 corpus weight
- contrepoints
contrepoints
29,500 corpus weight
- convertibil…
convertibilité
29,499 corpus weight
- cordelette
cordelette
29,498 corpus weight
- corneau
corneau
29,496 corpus weight
- corrigera
corrigera
29,495 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cordelette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cordelette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.də.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cordelette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cordelette is uncommon French at frequency #70,503 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔʁ.də.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Toute petite corde.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cordelette, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cordelette, spelled C-O-R-D-E-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Toute petite corde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cordelette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cordelettes m'entraient dans la chair, les mains me faisaient mal et la position dans laquelle mes bras étaient maintenus me brisait les épaules.
Sur le mur, grâce au calendrier des P.T.T. dont le carton blanc bordé d’un liséré rouge se balançait au bout de sa cordelette, c’était l’automne.
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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