flételet
\fle.tlɛ\
The verdict
“flételet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de flet commun (poisson).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fletelet · flételet · French
flételet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- 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 | flételet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fle.tlɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
flételet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fle.tlɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de flet commun (poisson).".
No misspelling variants are generated for flételet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is flételet, spelled F-L-É-T-E-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de flet commun (poisson).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flételet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On trouve flet, flette, fléteau, flételet, fléton, comme noms de pleuronectes; on peut expliquer ces noms par le curieux mouvement ondulatoire avec lequel ces poissons se meuvent dans l’eau et les rattacher au radical du flam, vletten, flotter, primitivement nager.
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.