fumette
\fy.mɛt\
The verdict
“fumette” is uncommon French (frequency #60,806 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,806
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de fumer du cannabis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumette · fumette · French
fumette · rank #60,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,806
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fréchette
Nearest frequency peer: Fréchette (-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 « fumette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- gamay
gamay
39,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fumette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fumette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fumette is uncommon French at frequency #60,806 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.mɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fumette, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fumette, spelled F-U-M-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Action de fumer du cannabis.
- 2Action d’inhaler les vapeurs d’une drogue préalablement chauffée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout se passe bien, la faune est très photogénique, l’alcool circule, la fumette dans un coin, la coke dans un autre.
Tout le monde semblait hagard, défoncé par la fumette et l’alcool, plus disposé à se coucher qu’à retrouver les affaires du jeune Blanc.
This word in other languages
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).