roitelet

/\ʁwa.tlɛ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#74,342

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

roitelet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roi dont le pouvoir est faible ; roi d'un tout petit royaume. Pronounced \ʁwa.tlɛ\.

Key facts for roitelet
PropertyValue
Headwordroitelet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁwa.tlɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#74,342
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of roitelet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for roitelet is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁwa.tlɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #74,342 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for roitelet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 roitelet, spelled R-O-I-T-E-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Roi dont le pouvoir est faible ; roi d'un tout petit royaume.
  2. 2
    Personne de plus ou moins grande envergure qui se donne une autorité de monarque, ou que l’on traite comme un petit roi.
  3. 3
    Très petit oiseau à bec fin, dont le plumage est olivâtre, et qui a sur la tête une tache d’un beau jaune, de la famille des Regulidae.
  4. 4
    Jeune vainqueur du jeu de tir à l’arc nommé « Abat Oiseau » ou « Tir du Roi », sur une cible perchée, à longue distance.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #74,342 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roitelet"?
"roitelet" is spelled R-O-I-T-E-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁwa.tlɛ\.
What does "roitelet" mean?
As a noun, "roitelet" means: Roi dont le pouvoir est faible ; roi d'un tout petit royaume.
How do you pronounce "roitelet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roitelet" is \ʁwa.tlɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roitelet" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.