trifles
/ˈtɹaɪ̯fl̩z/
"trifles" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trifles” is uncommon English (frequency #62,583 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,583
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of trifle
Corpus desk
Index EN-trifles · trifles · English
trifles · rank #62,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,583
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH transpire
Nearest frequency peer: transpire (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “trifles”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tortoiseshe…
tortoiseshell
37,421 corpus weight
- toucan
toucan
37,420 corpus weight
- transpire
transpire
37,419 corpus weight
- trifles
trifles
37,418 corpus weight
- triplicate
triplicate
37,417 corpus weight
- TRL
TRL
37,416 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “trifles” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trifles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɹaɪ̯fl̩z/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trifles” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trifles is uncommon English at frequency #62,583 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɹaɪ̯fl̩z/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of trifle".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for trifles, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is trifles, spelled T-R-I-F-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of trifle
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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