frette
\fʁɛt\
The verdict
“frette” is uncommon French (frequency #54,600 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,600
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de froid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frette · frette · French
frette · rank #54,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,600
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frenchy
Nearest frequency peer: Frenchy (-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 « frette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fontenoy
Fontenoy
45,404 corpus weight
- franquiste
franquiste
45,403 corpus weight
- Frenchy
Frenchy
45,402 corpus weight
- frette
frette
45,401 corpus weight
- friendzone
friendzone
45,400 corpus weight
- frontaux
frontaux
45,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frette is uncommon French at frequency #54,600 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de froid.".
frette has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is frette, spelled F-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de froid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— De l’eau « frette » ! Blasphème ! Donnez-moi de l’eau frette !
J’imagine un hôtel plein, où tous les repas ne sont servis qu’aux chambres. Petit déjeuner avec toasts frettes et café cuit sur le réchaud depuis des heures?
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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