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tricolour

UK /ˈtrɪkələnoun, adjective

tricolour is spelled T-R-I-C-O-L-O-U-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tricolour means “A flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tricolour is tricolours.

How many letters and syllables are in tricolour?

Letters9: T-R-I-C-O-L-O-U-R
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is tricolour?

Tricolour appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce tricolour?

  • UK /ˈtrɪkələ
  • UK -lɔː/
  • UK /ˈtraɪˌkʌlə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tricolour.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tricolour?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tricolour from its last stressed vowel (/ɪkələ/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of tricolour

  • tricolours plural
  • tricolor US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tricolour mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKA flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour.

    Tricolours are seen in the national flags of over twenty countries, including Belgium, France, India, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands and Ireland.

  2. 2

    UKAnything which is composed of three colours.

adjective

  1. 1

    UKHaving three colours.

    tricolour film

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tricolour in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtricolore (A flag with three stripes of different colours), trichromate (having three colors)
GermanTrikolore (A flag with three stripes of different colours), dreifarbig (having three colors)
Portuguesetricolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours), tricromático (having three colors)
Spanishtricolor (A flag with three stripes of different colours), tricrómico (having three colors)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does tricolour come from?

An anglicisation of the French tricolore; the flag originated in France. Equivalent to tri- + colour.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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