sellette
\sɛ.lɛt\
The verdict
“sellette” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #40,493 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #40,493
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit siège de bois fort bas, sur lequel on obligeait un accusé à s’asseoir quand on l’interrogeait pour le juger, et que les conclusions du ministère public tendaient à une peine afflictive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sellette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sellette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sellette is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.lɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,493 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sellette, with forms such as "esllette", "seleltte", and "selette". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 sellette, spelled S-E-L-L-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit siège de bois fort bas, sur lequel on obligeait un accusé à s’asseoir quand on l’interrogeait pour le juger, et que les conclusions du ministère public tendaient à une peine afflictive.
- 2Petit siège accroché aux barreaux d’une échelle ou soutenu par des cordes sur lequel s’assoient, à défaut d’échafaudage, les ravaleurs et les peintres en bâtiment.
- 3Pièce du harnais d’un cheval de trait, en forme de petite selle, qui est placée sur le dos du cheval et qui supporte des courroies auxquelles sont attachés les brancards.
- 4Petite selle de sculpteur.
- 5Partie des anciennes charrues sur laquelle le timon était appuyé.
- 6Plateforme sur laquelle vient reposer l’avant d’une semi-remorque accrochée à un tracteur routier.
- 7Ensemble siège-harnais du pilote de parapente sur lequel sont fixées les suspentes de la voile, éventuellement d’un parachute de secours ou d’instruments de vol. Il est généralement équipé d’un mousse-bag ou d’un sac gonflable pour l’atterrissage.
- 8Pièce de bois en manière de moise, arrondie par les bouts, qui, accolant l’arbre d’un engin, sert avec deux liens à porter le fauconneau.
- 9Banc haut sur pied, faisant partie du mobilier, ancien comme contemporain, pour exposer (mettre sur la sellette) un objet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esllette,seleltte,selette,sellete,selletet,selltete,slelette,ssellette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sellette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “sellette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-L-L-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛ.lɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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