fluet
\fly.ɛ\
The verdict
“fluet” is uncommon French (frequency #95,914 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,914
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit du corps mince et d’apparence délicate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fluet · fluet · French
fluet · rank #95,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,914
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH florus
Nearest frequency peer: florus (-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 « fluet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- finan
finan
4,091 corpus weight
- finesses
finesses
4,090 corpus weight
- fisa
fisa
4,089 corpus weight
- florus
florus
4,088 corpus weight
- fluet
fluet
4,087 corpus weight
- fléchée
fléchée
4,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fluet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fluet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fly.ɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fluet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fluet is uncommon French at frequency #95,914 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fly.ɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit du corps mince et d’apparence délicate.".
fluet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fluet, spelled F-L-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit du corps mince et d’apparence délicate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fluet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Damoiselle belette au corps long et fluet.
Ce petit babouin crut faire un bon marché avec moi [en prenant un bien à fonds perdu], parce que j’étais fluet et maigre.
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); 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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