starlette
\staʁ.lɛt\
The verdict
“starlette” is uncommon French (frequency #51,146 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,146
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Actrice de cinéma dont la gloire ou la célébrité n'est encore que potentielle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-starlette · starlette · French
starlette · rank #51,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,146
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SSL
Nearest frequency peer: SSL (-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 « starlette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soyeuse
soyeuse
48,858 corpus weight
- spécifiée
spécifiée
48,857 corpus weight
- SSL
SSL
48,856 corpus weight
- starlette
starlette
48,855 corpus weight
- stimulations
stimulations
48,854 corpus weight
- Stirling
Stirling
48,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « starlette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | starlette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \staʁ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « starlette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
starlette is uncommon French at frequency #51,146 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \staʁ.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Actrice de cinéma dont la gloire ou la célébrité n'est encore que potentielle.".
starlette has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is starlette, spelled S-T-A-R-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Actrice de cinéma dont la gloire ou la célébrité n'est encore que potentielle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how starlette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une brune anguleuse la remplaçait, l’œil aux aguets des anciennes starlettes.
La moindre scénette érotique (anodine aujourd'hui) fait sensation, telle celle de la starlette Françoise Deldick à demi nue montant à cheval les marches du Carlton.
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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