fleurettes
\flœ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“fleurettes” is uncommon French (frequency #92,737 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,737
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fleurette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fleurettes · fleurettes · French
fleurettes · rank #92,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,737
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Flandin
Nearest frequency peer: Flandin (-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 « fleurettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- FINUL
FINUL
7,268 corpus weight
- fioriture
fioriture
7,267 corpus weight
- flak
flak
7,266 corpus weight
- Flandin
Flandin
7,265 corpus weight
- fleurettes
fleurettes
7,264 corpus weight
- fluctuantes
fluctuantes
7,260 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fleurettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleurettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flœ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fleurettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fleurettes is uncommon French at frequency #92,737 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flœ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fleurette.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fleurettes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fleurettes, spelled F-L-E-U-R-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fleurette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fleurettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Disposer les fleurettes égouttées d’un demi-brocoli, puis quatre tranches de jambon cru coupées en petit morceaux et 70 g d’emmental râpé.
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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