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tri

Spanish, noun/ˈtɾi/

tri is spelled T-R-I (3 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written Spanish, the 18,462nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tri is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “the Mexican national football team” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does tri mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinethe Mexican national football team

noun

  1. 1

    femininethe Ecuador national football team

prefix

as tri-
  1. 1

    tri-

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

prefix: 1. Elemento compositivo que significa ‘tres’, relativo a tres.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce tri?

  • /ˈtɾi/
  • [ˈt̪ɾi]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to tri

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tri in Spanish?

tri appears 2.7 times per million words in written Spanish.

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

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