attrister

\a.tʁis.te\

/\a.tʁis.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“attrister” is uncommon French (frequency #72,931 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,931
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre triste.

Corpus desk

Index FR-attrister · attrister · French

attrister · rank #72,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,931
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH atteignez

Nearest frequency peer: atteignez (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « attrister »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attrister » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for attrister
PropertyValue
Headwordattrister
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.tʁis.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#72,931
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « attrister » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.attristertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « atteignez » (#72,930), « atténuées » (#72,932), « asymptomatique » (#72,929). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « attrister » est au #72,931. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

attrister is uncommon French at frequency #72,931 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.tʁis.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for attrister in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is attrister, spelled A-T-T-R-I-S-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre triste.
  2. 2
    Donner une allure triste, un air de tristesse.
  3. 3
    Devenir triste.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how attrister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tout venait de s’écrouler en elle et autour d’elle, et rien n’avait plus le pouvoir de toucher son cœur, de le réjouir ou de l’attrister.
  2. Je quitte Dollero tout heureux car, au milieu de ses éloges, il a, prétend-il, trouvé une épigramme […] Je l’attriste en soutenant que c’est encore un éloge et pas une épigramme.

Synonyms

abattreaffligerchagrinerdéprimerdésolerpeiner

Antonyms

amuserconsolerégayerenchanterenjoyerravirréconforterréjouir

This word in other languages

sadden(English)entristecer(Español)betrüben(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attrister"?
"attrister" is spelled A-T-T-R-I-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tʁis.te\.
What does "attrister" mean?
As a verb, "attrister" means: Rendre triste.
How do you pronounce "attrister"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attrister" is \a.tʁis.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attrister" come from?
"attrister" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "attrister", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

atteignez#72,930atténuées#72,932Babylonie#72,937balancées#72,942

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list