tartelette
\taʁ.tə.lɛt\
The verdict
“tartelette” is uncommon French (frequency #74,419 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,419
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite tarte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tartelette · tartelette · French
tartelette · rank #74,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,419
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tarnac
Nearest frequency peer: Tarnac (-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 « tartelette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sécateur
sécateur
25,586 corpus weight
- Ségovie
Ségovie
25,585 corpus weight
- Tarnac
Tarnac
25,583 corpus weight
- tartelette
tartelette
25,582 corpus weight
- tempi
tempi
25,581 corpus weight
- territory
territory
25,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tartelette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tartelette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁ.tə.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tartelette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tartelette is uncommon French at frequency #74,419 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \taʁ.tə.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite tarte.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tartelette, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 tartelette, spelled T-A-R-T-E-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite tarte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tartelette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« On les a bien eus, ahahahah ! Une autre tartelette, Horacio ? »
Par éviscération abdominale, le légiste (aidé d’une brigade de mitrons) dénombra par ordre d’entrée en scène : 18 tartelettes amandines, 26 pets-de-nonne, 13 paris-brest, 8 polonaises, 3 apfelstrudels, 1 demi saint-honoré, 5 poires Bourdaloue, 6 religieuses, 34 profiteroles, 3 quarts de kugelhopf, 1 brioche à la parisienne, 1 cake à l’ancienne, 3 babas au…
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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