trame

\tʁam\

/\tʁam\/ noun

The verdict

“trame” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,569
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fils horizontaux qui s’entrelacent avec la chaîne pour constituer un tissu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-trame · trame · French

trame · rank #9,569 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,569
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH toxique

Nearest frequency peer: toxique (-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 « trame »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « trame » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

trame vs tre
60% similar
trame vs true
60% similar
trame vs tree
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for trame
PropertyValue
Headwordtrame
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁam\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,569
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trame »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tramese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « toxique » (#9,568), « transit » (#9,570), « tombeau » (#9,567). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trame » est au #9,569. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around trame (IPA \tʁam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,569 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for trame, with forms such as "rtame", "tarme", and "traem". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "true", "tree", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 trame, spelled T-R-A-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fils horizontaux qui s’entrelacent avec la chaîne pour constituer un tissu.
  2. 2
    Complot ou intrigue nouée.
  3. 3
    Nombre de points que l’on a sur une surface donnée.
  4. 4
    Paquet d’information véhiculé au travers d’un support physique.
  5. 5
    Image constituée le plus souvent par un réseau périodique de structure généralement peu perceptible à l’œil, destinée à réaliser des tramés.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how trame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y a des étoffes dont la chaine est de fil et la trame de soie.
  2. À gauche l’Europe, à droite l’Afrique, avec leurs côtes rocheuses, revêtues par l’éloignement de nuances lilas clair, gorge de pigeon, comme celles d’une étoffe de soie à deux trames.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtame
  • tarme
  • traem
  • tramme
  • trmae
  • trrame
  • ttrame

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trame - 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.

rtame2tarme2traem2tramme1trmae2trrame1ttrame1
Edit distance from "trame"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trame"?
"trame" is spelled T-R-A-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁam\.
What does "trame" mean?
As a noun, "trame" means: Fils horizontaux qui s’entrelacent avec la chaîne pour constituer un tissu.
What words are commonly confused with "trame"?
"trame" is commonly confused with "tre", "true", "tree". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trame"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trame" is \tʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trame" come from?
"trame" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trame", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list