oiselet
\wa.zlɛ\
The verdict
“oiselet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit oiseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oiselet · oiselet · French
oiselet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | oiselet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.zlɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oiselet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oiselet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa.zlɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for oiselet, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 oiselet, spelled O-I-S-E-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit oiseau.
- 2Jeune oiseau.
- 3Petite cible en forme d’oiseau, en haut d’un mât, pour le tir des archers.
- 4Performance d’un joueur ou d’une joueuse qui réussit un coup sous le par.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oiselet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aimais ses traits fins, légers, comme fondus… je ne trouve pas d’autre mot… sous sa peau dorée, rosée, douce et soyeuse au toucher, plus soyeuse que la soie, plus tiède et tendre que les plumes d’un oiselet, que son duvet…
La confrérie des archers de Saint-Sébastien avait fait afficher, en manière de prix, cinq plats et trois cafetières d’étain, plus six cuillers à café en argent pour le dernier oiselet abattu.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.