frétille
\fʁe.tij\
The verdict
“frétille” is uncommon French (frequency #90,750 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,750
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de frétiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fretille · frétille · French
frétille · rank #90,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,750
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH futebol
Nearest frequency peer: futebol (+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 « frétille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frivolités
frivolités
9,256 corpus weight
- frétille
frétille
9,251 corpus weight
- futebol
futebol
9,250 corpus weight
- fy
fy
9,249 corpus weight
- Félicia
Félicia
9,248 corpus weight
- féminisé
féminisé
9,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frétille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frétille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁe.tij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frétille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frétille is uncommon French at frequency #90,750 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁe.tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for frétille in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is frétille, spelled F-R-É-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de frétiller.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de frétiller.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de frétiller.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de frétiller.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de frétiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frétille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autant avec mes sœurs il bombe le torse, frétille, batifole, flirtaille, autant avec moi il s’éteint.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).