osselets
French, noun/ɔ.slɛ/
osselets is spelled O-S-S-E-L-E-T-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Osselets is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of osselet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeu utilisant cinq osselets de mouton ou d’une autre matière (ivoire, métal, plastique) et consistant à…”.
What does osselets mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of osselet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Jeu utilisant cinq osselets de mouton ou d’une autre matière (ivoire, métal, plastique) et consistant à effectuer des exercices d’adresse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce osselets?
- /ɔ.slɛ/
- \ɔs.lɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to osselets
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is osselets in French?
osselets appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).