fleurette
\flœ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“fleurette” is uncommon French (frequency #66,740 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,740
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite fleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fleurette · fleurette · French
fleurette · rank #66,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,740
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flatulences
Nearest frequency peer: flatulences (-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 « fleurette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flam
flam
33,264 corpus weight
- flatulences
flatulences
33,262 corpus weight
- fleurette
fleurette
33,261 corpus weight
- fluctuer
fluctuer
33,260 corpus weight
- flushing
flushing
33,259 corpus weight
- fondants
fondants
33,258 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fleurette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleurette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flœ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fleurette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fleurette is uncommon French at frequency #66,740 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flœ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for fleurette in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fleurette, spelled F-L-E-U-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite fleur.
- 2Partie du méristème du chou-fleur.
- 3Virginité d'une jeune fille ou d'une femme.
- 4Propos galant ; dans l’expression conter fleurette.
- 5Petit morceau de peau découpé sur un poisson pour servir d’appât.
- 6Crème fleurette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fleurette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois, pour se distraire, elle cueillait au fond de l'oued desséché quelques fleurettes bizarres, épargnées du soleil, et chantait des mélopées arabes.
Dans ma tente même, aux endroits qui ne sont pas constamment piétinés, sous mon lit, dans les coins, il y a maintenant tout un jardinet d'herbes vertes et de fleurettes multicolores.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).