träge
\ˈtʁɛːɡə\
The verdict
“träge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Inerte : lent, peu réactif de comportement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trage · träge · French
träge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 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 | träge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈtʁɛːɡə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « träge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
träge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈtʁɛːɡə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for träge in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 träge, spelled T-R-Ä-G-E.
Definition
- 1Inerte : lent, peu réactif de comportement.
- 2Inerte : lent, lourd, peu réactif vis-à-vis de sollicitations ; aussi parfois inertiel.
- 3Retard, retardé, pour un fusible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how träge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Große, etablierte Gewerkschaften gelten in den USA als eingerostete, träge Apparate und werden oft als irrelevant betrachtet, angesichts des Niedergangs der verarbeitenden Industrie.
Indem der Mann die Frau als träge, ungeduldig, listig, dumm, unsensibel, geil, wild, gedemütigt sieht, projiziert er die Eigenschaften sämtlicher Tierweibchen auf sie.
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.