hommelet
\ɔm.lɛ\
The verdict
“hommelet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit homme ; homme de peu de force ou de peu de valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hommelet · hommelet · French
hommelet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hommelet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔm.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hommelet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hommelet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔm.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit homme ; homme de peu de force ou de peu de valeur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hommelet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hommelet, spelled H-O-M-M-E-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit homme ; homme de peu de force ou de peu de valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hommelet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si donc nous qui sommes des hommelets fragiles, ne pouuons nullement souffrir que nos valets nous méprisent, qui nous sont égaux en nature, & seulement inférieurs par la condition de leur servitude, combien iniuste est le mépris que nous faisons de ce diuin Maistre, […].
Qui donc t’a dit : « Tu n’es qu’un hommelet ? »
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.