[f. as prec. + -LET.] A small tribe.
1855. Bailey, Spir. Leg., in Mystic, etc. 69. The hill Altäic named the almighty god, By Tchudic tribelets of the age of mounds.
1873. Dixon, Two Queens, II. VII. iv. 25. An Irish tribelet, who had swept across the land.
1899. Olive Schreiner, in Fortn. Rev., July, 1. They were split up into endless tribelets.