fossette
\fɔ.sɛt\
The verdict
“fossette” is uncommon French (frequency #55,295 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,295
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit creux formé sur certaines parties du corps.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fossette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fossette” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fossette is uncommon French at frequency #55,295 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for fossette in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fossette, spelled F-O-S-S-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit creux formé sur certaines parties du corps.
- 2Petit creux que certaines personnes ont au bout du menton, ou qui se forme au milieu des joues quand elles rient.
- 3Petit creux que les enfants font en terre pour jouer à qui y fera tenir le plus de noix, de noisettes, de billes, de petites pièces de monnaie, etc., en les y jetant d’une certaine distance.
- 4Dépression d’origine hydrodynamique à la périphérie d’un film liquide en cours d’amincissement.
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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Using “fossette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-S-S-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.