stylet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,295
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
stylet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de poignard, dont la lame est très mince et ordinairement triangulaire. Pronounced \sti.lɛ\. Often confused with stylo and stylos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stylet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sti.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for stylet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sti.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,295 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for stylet, with forms such as "sstylet", "stlyet", and "sttylet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "stylo", "stylos", "style", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 stylet, spelled S-T-Y-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de poignard, dont la lame est très mince et ordinairement triangulaire.
- 2Utilisé (improprement suivant une stricte étymologie) au lieu de style pour désigner un poinçon servant à écrire sur une tablette.
- 3Aiguille d'un enregistreur.
- 4Petite tige métallique dont une extrémité est parfois percée d’un chas, destinée à explorer les canaux naturels et les plaies.
- 5Rostre, pièce buccale pointue d’insectes piqueurs et suceurs.
- 6Stylo sans mine, utilisé sur des écrans tactiles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sstylet,stlyet,sttylet,styelt,stylett,styllet,stylte,styylet,sytlet,tsylet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "stylet"
Frequency rank: #35,295 in French
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