trais
\tʁɛ\
The verdict
“trais” is uncommon French (frequency #90,262 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,262
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de traire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trais · trais · French
trais · rank #90,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,262
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transducteur
Nearest frequency peer: transducteur (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « trais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tractopelle
tractopelle
9,742 corpus weight
- trahies
trahies
9,741 corpus weight
- trais
trais
9,739 corpus weight
- transducteur
transducteur
9,738 corpus weight
- trattoria
trattoria
9,737 corpus weight
- tressage
tressage
9,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trais is uncommon French at frequency #90,262 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for trais in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trais, spelled T-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de traire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de traire.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de traire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand les vaches ont du lait, j’en trais un peu, ça me soutient…
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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