machine à traire

\ma.ʃi.n‿a tʁɛʁ\

/\ma.ʃi.n‿a tʁɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“machine à traire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil pour faire la traite mécanique des vaches, des brebis ou des chèvres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-machine-a-traire · machine à traire · French

machine à traire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" 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.

Key facts for machine à traire
PropertyValue
Headwordmachine à traire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʃi.n‿a tʁɛʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « machine à traire » en français

machine à trairesiège au-delà des 100.000 formes les plus fréquentes du français, dans la traîne du lexique spécialisé ou peu usité.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

machine à traire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʃi.n‿a tʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil pour faire la traite mécanique des vaches, des brebis ou des chèvres.".

machine à traire has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is machine à traire, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E- -À- -T-R-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appareil pour faire la traite mécanique des vaches, des brebis ou des chèvres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La machine à traire (trayeuse) est un appareil destiné à remplacer la main du trayeur par des gobelets s'adaptant à la forme des trayons… Le principe est de créer un mouvement alternatif de massage et de succion sur les trayons afin d'éjecter le lait. Ce cycle est réalisé par l’application d'une alternance de phases de pression et de dépression dans la ch…
  2. Les manchons trayeurs et pulsateurs en bon état permettent un massage adéquat. Il est difficile de traire adéquatement si la machine à traire ne travaille pas correctement.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "machine à traire"?
"machine à traire" is spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E- -À- -T-R-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʃi.n‿a tʁɛʁ\.
What does "machine à traire" mean?
As a noun, "machine à traire" means: Appareil pour faire la traite mécanique des vaches, des brebis ou des chèvres.
How do you pronounce "machine à traire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "machine à traire" is \ma.ʃi.n‿a tʁɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "machine à traire" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list