pâte feuilletée
\pɑt fœ.jə.te\
The verdict
“pâte feuilletée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pâte constituée de couches alternées de pâte et de matière grasse, formées par une succession de pliages et de laminages, utilisée en pâtisserie et dans les préparations salées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pâte feuilletée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑt fœ.jə.te\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pâte feuilletée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pâte feuilletée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑt fœ.jə.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pâte constituée de couches alternées de pâte et de matière grasse, formées par une succession de pliages et de laminages, utilisée en pâtisserie et dans les préparations salées.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pâte feuilletée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pâte feuilletée, spelled P-Â-T-E- -F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Pâte constituée de couches alternées de pâte et de matière grasse, formées par une succession de pliages et de laminages, utilisée en pâtisserie et dans les préparations salées.
This word in other languages
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Using “pâte feuilletée”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-Â-T-E- -F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.