florette
\flɔ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“florette” is uncommon French (frequency #74,804 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,804
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monnaie en billon, frappée sous Charles VII et dont l’avers est orné de trois fleurs de lys sous une couronne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-florette · florette · French
florette · rank #74,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,804
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Flahaut
Nearest frequency peer: Flahaut (-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 « florette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- figo
figo
25,200 corpus weight
- Fiodor
Fiodor
25,199 corpus weight
- Flahaut
Flahaut
25,198 corpus weight
- florette
florette
25,197 corpus weight
- floris
floris
25,196 corpus weight
- fléchés
fléchés
25,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « florette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | florette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flɔ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « florette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
florette is uncommon French at frequency #74,804 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \flɔ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Monnaie en billon, frappée sous Charles VII et dont l’avers est orné de trois fleurs de lys sous une couronne.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for florette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 florette, spelled F-L-O-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Monnaie en billon, frappée sous Charles VII et dont l’avers est orné de trois fleurs de lys sous une couronne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how florette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La florette valait dix deniers et pesait environ 3 grammes, dont environ un gramme d’argent.
De mauvaises langues virent dans cette expression une version plus « comptable» : « compter florette », où « florette » est une monnaie estampillée de la fleur de lys, emblème royal, sous Charles VI.
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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