thrip
\tʁip\
The verdict
“thrip” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de thrips.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thrip · thrip · French
thrip · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 | thrip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁip\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
thrip is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de thrips.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thrip, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 thrip, spelled T-H-R-I-P.
Definition
- 1Variante de thrips.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thrip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existe différentes espèces de thrips (des céréales, du riz, du blé, du lin, etc).
Je n’espérais guère pouvoir reconnaître celui que les thrips, les abeilles, les bourdons, les papillons porteraient sur eux, et savoir si c’était celui qui pouvait féconder la fleur où ils allaient s’arrêter.
This word in other languages
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