rondelette
\ʁɔ̃d.lɛt\
The verdict
“rondelette” is uncommon French (frequency #84,264 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,264
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de rondelet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rondelette · rondelette · French
rondelette · rank #84,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,264
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH romanisation
Nearest frequency peer: romanisation (-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 « rondelette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- riziculture
riziculture
15,741 corpus weight
- rognon
rognon
15,739 corpus weight
- romanisation
romanisation
15,738 corpus weight
- rondelette
rondelette
15,737 corpus weight
- ronflait
ronflait
15,736 corpus weight
- rots
rots
15,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rondelette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rondelette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃d.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rondelette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rondelette is uncommon French at frequency #84,264 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɔ̃d.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de rondelet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rondelette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rondelette, spelled R-O-N-D-E-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de rondelet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rondelette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un peu rondelette, de bonnes petites joues, Elle essuie les critiques de quelques jaloux. — (Keen’v, « Petite Émilie » sur l’album La vie est belle, 2012)
Le mot rondelette, si oublié, peint un genre de beauté qui, croyez-moi, est proprement enivrant quand la beauté est adolescente.
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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