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trife

/tɹaɪf/noun, adjective

trife is spelled T-R-I-F-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trife means “A trivial matter or matters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in trife?

Letters5: T-R-I-F-E
In writingabout once in every 29 million words; the 163,711th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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 trife?

Trife appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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 trife?

  • /tɹaɪf/

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

What rhymes with trife?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as trife.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: refit.

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 trife

  • more trife comparative
  • most trife superlative

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

What does trife mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangA trivial matter or matters.

adjective

  1. 1

    slangUnforgiveable; reprehensible.

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

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