pâte feuilletée
The verdict
“pâte feuilletée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pâte feuilletée is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑt fœ.jə.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 misspelling variants are generated for pâte feuilletée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pâte feuilletée, spelled P-Â-T-E- -F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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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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