thrène
\tʁɛn\
The verdict
“thrène” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chant funèbre chez les Grecs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-threne · thrène · French
thrène · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | thrène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thrène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thrène is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chant funèbre chez les Grecs.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thrène, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 thrène, spelled T-H-R-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Chant funèbre chez les Grecs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thrène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Walt Whitman à l'occasion de la mort du président Lincoln, écrivit un de ses plus beaux chants. Mais si ce libre chant eût été contraint, si Whitman avait été forcé de l’écrire par ordre et conformément à un canon admis, ce thrène aurait perdu sa vertu, sa beauté; ou plutôt Whitman n’aurait pas pu l’écrire.
Elle prit immédiatement son rôle de pleureuse et commenta la mémoire du mort de lamentations, de thrènes désespérés.
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.