trachée

\tʁa.ʃe\

/\tʁa.ʃe\/ noun

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The verdict

“trachée” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,074. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,074
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tube délié, petit vaisseau des insectes et des plantes, formé d’un fil élastique contourné en spirale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-trachee · trachée · French

trachée · rank #38,074 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,074
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH touchdown

Nearest frequency peer: touchdown (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « trachée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « trachée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

trachée vs trahie
71% similar
trachée vs triché
71% similar
trachée vs travée
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for trachée
PropertyValue
Headwordtrachée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁa.ʃe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#38,074
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trachée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).trachéese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « touchdown » (#38,073), « transcendant » (#38,075), « touchaient » (#38,072). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trachée » est au #38,074. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around trachée (IPA \tʁa.ʃe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,074 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for trachée, with forms such as "rtachée", "tarchée", and "tracchée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trahie", "triché", "travée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trachée, spelled T-R-A-C-H-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tube délié, petit vaisseau des insectes et des plantes, formé d’un fil élastique contourné en spirale.
  2. 2
    Tuyau élastique qui, chez les vertébrés, permet de transporter l’air entre le larynx et les bronches, aussi appelé trachée-artère.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les insectes respirent par les trachées.
  2. L’hypertrophie thyroïdienne dont est atteint le sujet, et peut-être aussi un certain degré de sthénose de la trachée, consécutive à la trachéotomie, rendirent la chloroformisation très difficile.

This word in other languages

windpipe(English)tráquea(Español)Luftröhre(Deutsch)traqueia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtachée
  • tarchée
  • tracchée
  • trachee
  • tracheé
  • trachhée
  • tracéhe
  • trahcée
  • trcahée
  • trrachée
  • ttrachée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trachée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

rtachée2tarchée2tracchée1trachee1tracheé2trachhée1tracéhe2trahcée2
Edit distance from "trachée"

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 "trachée"?
"trachée" is spelled T-R-A-C-H-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁa.ʃe\.
What does "trachée" mean?
As a noun, "trachée" means: Tube délié, petit vaisseau des insectes et des plantes, formé d’un fil élastique contourné en spirale.
What words are commonly confused with "trachée"?
"trachée" is commonly confused with "trahie", "triché", "travée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trachée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trachée" is \tʁa.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trachée" come from?
"trachée" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

teneurs#38,067trotter#38,081tuerait#38,084tétanos#38,086

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

trisomie11 variantsvisqueux11 variantsépanouit11 variantsrétréci11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list