pompette
\pɔ̃.pɛt\
The verdict
“pompette” is uncommon French (frequency #60,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,290
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En léger état d’ébriété.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pompette · pompette · French
pompette · rank #60,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,290
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH politicards
Nearest frequency peer: politicards (-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 « pompette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poireauter
poireauter
39,713 corpus weight
- politicards
politicards
39,712 corpus weight
- pompette
pompette
39,711 corpus weight
- pondus
pondus
39,710 corpus weight
- pourfendeur
pourfendeur
39,709 corpus weight
- pray
pray
39,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pompette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pompette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pompette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pompette is uncommon French at frequency #60,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ̃.pɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En léger état d’ébriété.".
pompette has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pompette, spelled P-O-M-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1En léger état d’ébriété.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pompette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je l’ai vu souvent encore, dans ces repas que les gens décents traitent « d’orgies, » et jamais il ne dépassait, après les plus brûlantes lampées, cette nuance de griserie qu’il appelait, avec une grâce légèrement soldatesque, « être un peu pompette, » en faisant le geste militaire de mettre un pompon à son bonnet.
Un sourire permanent de bon roi d’Yvetot légèrement pompette, une main à demi dépliée flottant, comme l’aileron d’un requin, à côté de sa poitrine, et qu’il laissait presser indistinctement par ses vieux amis et par les inconnus qu’on lui présentait, lui permettaient, sans avoir à faire un seul geste ni à interrompre sa tournée débonnaire, fainéante et ro…
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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