flet
\flɛ\
The verdict
“flet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de poissons osseux surtout marins, certains poissons plats voisins de la plie et de la limande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flet · flet · French
flet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | flet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
flet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for flet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flet, spelled F-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Espèce de poissons osseux surtout marins, certains poissons plats voisins de la plie et de la limande.
- 2Flet commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On trouvait auparavant beaucoup de flets dans l’Elbe
Ainsi chez le Flet, poisson normalement droitier, les individus dits inversés « gauchers » représentent près d'un tiers dans certaines populations.
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.