traire
\tʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“traire” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,056
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer sur le pis des vaches ou d’autres mammifères domestiques femelles pour en extraire le lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traire · traire · French
traire · rank #40,056 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,056
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toxicomanes
Nearest frequency peer: toxicomanes (-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 « traire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- toponymie
toponymie
59,949 corpus weight
- toxicomanes
toxicomanes
59,946 corpus weight
- traire
traire
59,945 corpus weight
- trams
trams
59,944 corpus weight
- transmets
transmets
59,943 corpus weight
- trias
trias
59,942 corpus weight
What this shows « traire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « traire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around traire (IPA \tʁɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,056 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for traire, with forms such as "rtaire", "tarire", and "traier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trie", "trait", "trame", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is traire, spelled T-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Tirer sur le pis des vaches ou d’autres mammifères domestiques femelles pour en extraire le lait.
- 2Dépouiller financièrement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how traire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Julie, lui tournant le dos, était en train de traire et, du pis qu’elle pressait en cadence, le lait tombait dans le chaudron de fer battu avec un roulement semi-argentin de tambour.
C’était presque aussi charmant que le cabri d’Esméralda, tu te rappelles, Gringoire ? — Et puis, docile, caressante, se laissant traire sans bouger, sans mettre son pied dans l’écuelle. Un amour de petite chèvre…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtaire
- tarire
- traier
- trairre
- trarie
- triare
- trraire
- ttraire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of traire - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "traire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).