femmelette
French, noun/fam.lɛt/
femmelette is spelled F-E-M-M-E-L-E-T-T-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Femmelette is a French feminine noun meaning “wimp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Femme d’une grande faiblesse physique et morale”.
What does femmelette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewimp
- 2
femininesissy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme d’une grande faiblesse physique et morale. 2. Homme faible, sans énergie, hommelette.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of femmelette
- femmelettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce femmelette?
- /fam.lɛt/
- \fam.lɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is femmelette in French?
femmelette appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).