islet
\i.lɛ\
The verdict
“islet” is uncommon French (frequency #75,809 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,809
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de îlet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-islet · islet · French
islet · rank #75,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,809
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irrévocableme…
Nearest frequency peer: irrévocablement (-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 « islet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- invitaient
invitaient
24,197 corpus weight
- ires
ires
24,195 corpus weight
- irrévocable…
irrévocablement
24,194 corpus weight
- islet
islet
24,192 corpus weight
- jacquerie
jacquerie
24,190 corpus weight
- jaw
jaw
24,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « islet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | islet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « islet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
islet is uncommon French at frequency #75,809 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de îlet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for islet in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is islet, spelled I-S-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de îlet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how islet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sitôt perçue comme différente, sitôt dotée d’un nom : chaque île, chaque îlot, chaque islet, en Polynésie comme ailleurs, se distingue par son nom.
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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