3e
\tʁwa.zjɛm\
The verdict
“3e” sits in 7 confusable pairs (corpus #3,729) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,729
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- “3” headwords
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-3e · 3e · French
3e · rank #3,729 · 0 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,729
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 13
- PHOTO-FINISH étonnant
Nearest frequency peer: étonnant (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 3e »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- électriques
électriques
96,276 corpus weight
- étonnant
étonnant
96,273 corpus weight
- 3e
3e
96,272 corpus weight
- acquisition
acquisition
96,271 corpus weight
- africains
africains
96,270 corpus weight
- agricoles
agricoles
96,269 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 3e » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 3e |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁwa.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 3e »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 3e is neighbouring look-alikes ("3G", "3M", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \tʁwa.zjɛm\. Frequency #3,729 among 13 “3” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième.".
3e doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "3G", "3M", "3ème", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is 3e, spelled 3-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.