ourlet
\uʁ.lɛ\
The verdict
“ourlet” is uncommon French (frequency #52,883 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,883
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bord d’une toile ou d’une étoffe replié et cousu, pour empêcher qu’elle ne s’effile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ourlet · ourlet · French
ourlet · rank #52,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,883
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ornière
Nearest frequency peer: ornière (-1 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 « ourlet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oligarque
oligarque
47,122 corpus weight
- opportunity
opportunity
47,120 corpus weight
- ornière
ornière
47,119 corpus weight
- ourlet
ourlet
47,118 corpus weight
- Ozon
Ozon
47,116 corpus weight
- pagination
pagination
47,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ourlet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ourlet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \uʁ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ourlet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ourlet is uncommon French at frequency #52,883 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \uʁ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ourlet, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ourlet, spelled O-U-R-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Bord d’une toile ou d’une étoffe replié et cousu, pour empêcher qu’elle ne s’effile.
- 2Rebord de divers objets.
- 3Formation végétale composée de plantes herbacées le long d'une haie, d'un bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ourlet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un simple ourlet bordait la collerette de la petite fille brune, tandis que de jolies broderies ornaient celle du cadet, […].
On te saluerait très bas, on baiserait l’ourlet de ta robe.
Antonyms
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); 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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