3e

/\tʁwa.zjɛm\/ adj

Letters

2 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,729

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

3e is anFrenchadj. It means: Troisième. Pronounced \tʁwa.zjɛm\. It ranks #3,729 in French word frequency. Often confused with 3G and 3M.

Key facts for 3e
PropertyValue
Headword3e
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\tʁwa.zjɛm\
Letters2
Frequency rank#3,729
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of 3e in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for 3e is 2 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁwa.zjɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,729 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for 3e in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "3G", "3M", "3ème", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is 3e, spelled 3-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #3,729 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "3e"?
"3e" is spelled 3-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁwa.zjɛm\.
What does "3e" mean?
As an adj, "3e" means: Troisième.
What words are commonly confused with "3e"?
"3e" is commonly confused with "3G", "3M", "3ème". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "3e"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "3e" is \tʁwa.zjɛm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "3e" come from?
"3e" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.