varlet
\vaʁ.lɛ\
The verdict
“varlet” is uncommon French (frequency #80,757 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,757
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Page, jeune seigneur, au temps de la chevalerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-varlet · varlet · French
varlet · rank #80,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,757
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vapoteurs
Nearest frequency peer: vapoteurs (-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 « varlet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- usez
usez
19,250 corpus weight
- valorisatio…
valorisations
19,248 corpus weight
- Vanina
Vanina
19,247 corpus weight
- vapoteurs
vapoteurs
19,245 corpus weight
- varlet
varlet
19,244 corpus weight
- vey
vey
19,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « varlet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | varlet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vaʁ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « varlet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
varlet is uncommon French at frequency #80,757 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vaʁ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for varlet, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 varlet, spelled V-A-R-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Page, jeune seigneur, au temps de la chevalerie.
- 2Valet.
- 3Jeune merlan (poisson de nom scientifique Merlangius merlangus).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how varlet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fais toutefois qu’il soit content, entêté varlet ! ajouta le chevalier Déshérité.
[…] ; de longues bottes de cuir noir, comme en avaient les pages et les varlets, lui montaient au-dessus du genou, […].
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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