traître
\tʁɛtʁ\
The verdict
“traître” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,495
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui trahit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traitre · traître · French
traître · rank #11,495 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,495
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 164,488
- PHOTO-FINISH traversant
Nearest frequency peer: traversant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “traître”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tchad
Tchad
88,509 corpus weight
- tomes
tomes
88,508 corpus weight
- traversant
traversant
88,507 corpus weight
- traître
traître
88,506 corpus weight
- UEFA
UEFA
88,505 corpus weight
- ultérieurem…
ultérieurement
88,504 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “traître” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | traître |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “traître” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around traître (IPA \tʁɛtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,495 among 164,488 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui trahit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for traître, with forms such as "rtaître", "tarître", and "tratîre". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "traits", "Traoré", "traîtres", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is traître, spelled T-R-A-Î-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui trahit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtaître
- tarître
- tratîre
- traîrte
- traîter
- traîtrre
- traîttre
- trraître
- trîatre
- ttraître
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of traître - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "traître", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.