fléchette
\fle.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“fléchette” is uncommon French (frequency #81,169 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,169
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite flèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flechette · fléchette · French
fléchette · rank #81,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,169
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluminense
Nearest frequency peer: fluminense (-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 « fléchette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fiscalistes
fiscalistes
18,836 corpus weight
- fiume
fiume
18,834 corpus weight
- fluminense
fluminense
18,833 corpus weight
- fléchette
fléchette
18,832 corpus weight
- footballeuse
footballeuse
18,830 corpus weight
- fouillez
fouillez
18,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fléchette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fléchette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fle.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fléchette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fléchette is uncommon French at frequency #81,169 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fle.ʃɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fléchette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fléchette, spelled F-L-É-C-H-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite flèche.
- 2Jeu d’adresse consistant à lancer manuellement ce type de projectiles vers une cible.
- 3Petites flèches métalliques lancées sur les ennemis par les avions.
- 4Dose de pot belge.
- 5Plus petite récompense dans l'épreuve de ski alpin de la flèche (slalom géant), organisée par l'école de ski français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fléchette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu n’as plus qu’à tirer à l’arc ou à la fléchette empoisonnée.
Sans discontinuer, les joueurs, quasi en déséquilibre pour accompagner au mieux les fléchettes, n’ont de regard que pour la cible.
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); 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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