frottée
\fʁɔ.te\
The verdict
“frottée” is uncommon French (frequency #85,738 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,738
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volée de coups ; raclée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frottee · frottée · French
frottée · rank #85,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,738
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frisant
Nearest frequency peer: frisant (-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 « frottée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fredy
Fredy
14,266 corpus weight
- frileuses
frileuses
14,265 corpus weight
- frisant
frisant
14,264 corpus weight
- frottée
frottée
14,263 corpus weight
- furoncles
furoncles
14,262 corpus weight
- gachet
gachet
14,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frottée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frottée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frottée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frottée is uncommon French at frequency #85,738 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for frottée, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is frottée, spelled F-R-O-T-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Volée de coups ; raclée.
- 2Tartine frottée d'ail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frottée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il ajoutait : « Il n'empêche, nous avons maintenu l'enthousiasme de nos soldats en leur laissant espérer qu'ils allaient donner une frottée, une drossée, une volée à cette bande de rustres, de cochons, de fumiers, de pouilleux, de galeux, […].
Si Le Livec la trahissait elle se promettait par une frottée magistrale de lui faire rendre l'âme!
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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