The invention provides an orodispersible solid pharmaceutical dosage unit having a weight between 30 and 1,000 mg, said dosage unit containing at least 100 μg of an estetrol component selected from estetrol, estetrol esters and combinations thereof; wherein the solid dosage unit can be obtained by a process that comprises: providing a loading liquid comprising organic solvent; estetrol component and optionally one or more other pharmaceutically acceptable ingredients; mixing 1 part by weight of the loading liquid with 0.5-20 parts by weight of carrier particles to produce wet particles; removing organic solvent from the wet particles to produce loaded particles; optionally mixing the loaded particles with one or more tabletting excipients; and forming the loaded particles or the mixture of the loaded particles and the one or more tabletting excipients into a solid dosage unit. The solid dosage unit is easy to manufacture and perfectly suited for sublingual, buccal or sublabial administration.