tramadol
\tʁa.ma.dɔl\
The verdict
“tramadol” is uncommon French (frequency #80,725 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,725
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antalgique de synthèse, d'action centrale, c'est un agoniste des récepteurs aux opiacés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tramadol · tramadol · French
tramadol · rank #80,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,725
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tourtes
Nearest frequency peer: tourtes (-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 « tramadol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tourbillonn…
tourbillonnant
19,278 corpus weight
- tourtes
tourtes
19,277 corpus weight
- tramadol
tramadol
19,276 corpus weight
- transnation…
transnationaux
19,275 corpus weight
- transpires
transpires
19,274 corpus weight
- trappiste
trappiste
19,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tramadol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tramadol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.ma.dɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tramadol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tramadol is uncommon French at frequency #80,725 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.ma.dɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Antalgique de synthèse, d'action centrale, c'est un agoniste des récepteurs aux opiacés.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tramadol in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tramadol, spelled T-R-A-M-A-D-O-L.
Definition
- 1Antalgique de synthèse, d'action centrale, c'est un agoniste des récepteurs aux opiacés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tramadol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2017, la justice militaire du Hamas a condamné à mort deux trafiquants de drogue dans l'enclave de Gaza où la consommation de stupéfiants est un sujet aussi tabou que brûlant. L'usage des Tramadols y est très courante.
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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