drapeau tricolore
\dʁa.po tʁi.ko.lɔʁ\
The verdict
“drapeau tricolore” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drapeau comportant trois couleurs à bandes verticales ou horizontales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drapeau-tricolore · drapeau tricolore · French
drapeau tricolore · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drapeau tricolore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.po tʁi.ko.lɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drapeau tricolore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drapeau tricolore is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.po tʁi.ko.lɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for drapeau tricolore, 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.
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 French form is drapeau tricolore, spelled D-R-A-P-E-A-U- -T-R-I-C-O-L-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Drapeau comportant trois couleurs à bandes verticales ou horizontales.
- 2Drapeau de son propre pays (en général au moins en partie francophone), lorsqu’il comporte trois bandes de couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drapeau tricolore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi l’alliance du blanc, du rouge et du bleu, n’était pas nouvelle lorsque au commencement de la révolution française on adopta le drapeau tricolore.
Pour la seconde nuit d’affilée, des inconnus ont accroché un drapeau belge à l’hôtel de ville de Lennik, commune de l’arrondissement de Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde dont le bourgmestre Willy De Waele (Open Vld) a récemment fait remplacer le drapeau tricolore par le lion flamand sur les bâtiments officiels.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.