ourlets
\uʁ.lɛ\
The verdict
“ourlets” is uncommon French (frequency #69,287 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,287
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ourlet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ourlets · ourlets · French
ourlets · rank #69,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,287
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ornières
Nearest frequency peer: ornières (-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 « ourlets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orchard
orchard
30,717 corpus weight
- Ornella
Ornella
30,716 corpus weight
- ornières
ornières
30,715 corpus weight
- ourlets
ourlets
30,714 corpus weight
- ovo
ovo
30,713 corpus weight
- paléographie
paléographie
30,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ourlets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ourlets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \uʁ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ourlets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ourlets is uncommon French at frequency #69,287 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \uʁ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ourlet.".
ourlets has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ourlets, spelled O-U-R-L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ourlet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ourlets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faites des ourlets doubles de 1 cm puis 3 cm aux bas des manches en laissant une ouverture de 1 cm à chaque manche pour les cordons.
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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