riflette
\ʁi.flɛt\
The verdict
“riflette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zone de combats, front, guerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riflette · riflette · French
riflette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riflette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.flɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « riflette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
riflette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.flɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zone de combats, front, guerre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for riflette, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is riflette, spelled R-I-F-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Zone de combats, front, guerre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how riflette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Menés en paquet à la riflette, ils n’eussent pas manifesté moins de délire et d’innocence…
En 14, beaucoup de jules, pas clients pour la riflette, s’étaient pointés à Londres avec leurs nanas.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.