venette
\və.nɛt\
The verdict
“venette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peur, inquiétude, alarme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venette · venette · French
venette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \və.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “venette” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
venette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \və.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peur, inquiétude, alarme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for venette, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is venette, spelled V-E-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Peur, inquiétude, alarme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how venette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, not’maître, votre figure si pâle de la venette que vous venez d’avoir, mais votre belle calèche anglaise couverte de boue, ça va sembler drôle, on jasera ; ce ne sera pourtant pas moi qui aurai parlé.
Ah ! notre cher Théodose m’a donné une fière venette !
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