Fréchette
\fʁe.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“Fréchette” is uncommon French (frequency #60,805 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,805
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frechette · Fréchette · French
Fréchette · rank #60,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,805
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frimer
Nearest frequency peer: frimer (-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 « Fréchette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- formulent
formulent
39,200 corpus weight
- fourrier
fourrier
39,199 corpus weight
- frimer
frimer
39,197 corpus weight
- Fréchette
Fréchette
39,196 corpus weight
- fumette
fumette
39,195 corpus weight
- fétichistes
fétichistes
39,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fréchette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fréchette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fʁe.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fréchette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fréchette is uncommon French at frequency #60,805 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fʁe.ʃɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Fréchette in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Fréchette, spelled F-R-É-C-H-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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