guillet
\ɡi.le\
The verdict
“guillet” is uncommon French (frequency #59,323 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,323
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu d’enfants dit ailleurs jeu du bâtonnet et jeu de la guiche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guillet · guillet · French
guillet · rank #59,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,323
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guano
Nearest frequency peer: guano (-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 « guillet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- graphics
graphics
40,681 corpus weight
- greatest
greatest
40,680 corpus weight
- guano
guano
40,679 corpus weight
- guillet
guillet
40,678 corpus weight
- Guyancourt
Guyancourt
40,677 corpus weight
- guérisseuse
guérisseuse
40,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guillet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡi.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guillet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guillet is uncommon French at frequency #59,323 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeu d’enfants dit ailleurs jeu du bâtonnet et jeu de la guiche.".
Zero misspellings are on record for guillet in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is guillet, spelled G-U-I-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Jeu d’enfants dit ailleurs jeu du bâtonnet et jeu de la guiche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guillet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le guillet est un bâtonnet long d’un décimètre environ, appointé par les deux bouts ; on le pose à plat sur le sol, puis on le frappe en porte-à-faux sur la partie pointue, de manière à le faire rebondir ; le jeu consiste à frapper du même bâton le guillet avant qu’il retombe et à le lancer loin du point où l’autre joueur a intérêt à le ramener.
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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