frottées
\fʁɔ.te\
The verdict
“frottées” is uncommon French (frequency #95,929 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,929
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de frottée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frottees · frottées · French
frottées · rank #95,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,929
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frege
Nearest frequency peer: frege (-2 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 « frottées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- francique
francique
4,076 corpus weight
- frege
frege
4,074 corpus weight
- frottées
frottées
4,072 corpus weight
- fuira
fuira
4,070 corpus weight
- Futaba
Futaba
4,069 corpus weight
- féculent
féculent
4,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frottées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frottées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frottées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frottées is uncommon French at frequency #95,929 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de frottée.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frottées, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is frottées, spelled F-R-O-T-T-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de frottée.
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).