feuillette

\fø.jɛt\

/\fø.jɛt\/ noun

The verdict

“feuillette” is uncommon French (frequency #62,274 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,274
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fût contenant environ 225 litres de vin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-feuillette · feuillette · French

feuillette · rank #62,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,274
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fernández

Nearest frequency peer: Fernández (-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 « feuillette »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feuillette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for feuillette
PropertyValue
Headwordfeuillette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fø.jɛt\
Letters10
Frequency rank#62,274
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « feuillette » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.feuillettetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Fernández » (#62,273), « feist » (#62,272), « fif » (#62,276). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « feuillette » est au #62,274. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

feuillette is uncommon French at frequency #62,274 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fø.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fût contenant environ 225 litres de vin.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for feuillette, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is feuillette, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fût contenant environ 225 litres de vin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how feuillette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ma cave sera bientôt vide. Les soldats que M. de Nevers, notre duc, nous envoya pour nous défendre, viennent de mettre en perce ma dernière feuillette.
  2. Faut fêter ça ! clamait, en écho l’oncle Meulenot. J’ai justement apporté une feuillette que mon futur gendre va nous décharger en un tournemain.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feuillette"?
"feuillette" is spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fø.jɛt\.
What does "feuillette" mean?
As a noun, "feuillette" means: Fût contenant environ 225 litres de vin.
How do you pronounce "feuillette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feuillette" is \fø.jɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feuillette", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list