roitelet
\ʁwa.tlɛ\
The verdict
“roitelet” is uncommon French (frequency #74,342 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,342
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi dont le pouvoir est faible ; roi d'un tout petit royaume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roitelet · roitelet · French
roitelet · rank #74,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,342
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rocs
Nearest frequency peer: rocs (-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 « roitelet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ricaine
ricaine
25,662 corpus weight
- rochas
rochas
25,661 corpus weight
- rocs
rocs
25,660 corpus weight
- roitelet
roitelet
25,659 corpus weight
- rony
rony
25,657 corpus weight
- rooster
rooster
25,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roitelet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roitelet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁwa.tlɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roitelet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roitelet is uncommon French at frequency #74,342 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁwa.tlɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for roitelet in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is roitelet, spelled R-O-I-T-E-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Roi dont le pouvoir est faible ; roi d'un tout petit royaume.
- 2Personne de plus ou moins grande envergure qui se donne une autorité de monarque, ou que l’on traite comme un petit roi.
- 3Très 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.
- 4Jeune vainqueur du jeu de tir à l’arc nommé « Abat Oiseau » ou « Tir du Roi », sur une cible perchée, à longue distance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roitelet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Kaiser n’était, à côté de l’Hitler d’aujourd'hui, qu’une sorte de roitelet. Guillaume II régnait, mais il existait entre lui et la masse allemande des puissances intermédiaires, des suzerainetés locales.
Jiang, l’empereur rouge, a octroyé au roitelet népalais un soutien complet portant sur trois fronts.
Synonyms
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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