léchette
\le.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“léchette” 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) - Petite tranche mince, petite lèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lechette · léchette · French
léchette · 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 "L" 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 | léchette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « léchette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
léchette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.ʃɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite tranche mince, petite lèche.".
léchette has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is léchette, spelled L-É-C-H-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite tranche mince, petite lèche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how léchette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à Barbuche, s’il eût pu donner son opinion, il eût certainement conclu qu’une léchette de bœuf et une tranche de pain étaient de beaucoup préférables aux fleurs, aux rubans et aux caresses.
Synonyms
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.