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trame

French, noun

trame is spelled T-R-A-M-E (5 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written French, the 9,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trame is a French feminine noun meaning “weft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tramer. With an accent, tramé is a different word: “past participle of tramer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fils horizontaux qui s’entrelacent avec la chaîne pour constituer un tissu”.

What does trame mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineweft

  2. 2

    feminineframe

  3. 3

    femininescreentone

  4. 4

    feminineframe, pipeline

    à la trame

  5. 5

    feminineintrigue, plot

  6. 6

    feminineframe (chunk of data)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as tramé
  1. 1

    past participle of tramer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Fils horizontaux qui s’entrelacent avec la chaîne pour constituer un tissu. 2. Complot ou intrigue nouée. 3. Nombre de points que l’on a sur une surface donnée. 4. Paquet d’information véhiculé au travers d’un support physique.

noun: 1. Fractionnement d’une image en un ensemble de fins éléments graphiques disjoints. 2. Résultat de ce fractionnement obtenu par procédé photomécanique pour permettre l’'impression d’aplats de valeur différentes ou de demi-teintes.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of trame

  • trames plural
  • tramée feminine
  • tramés masculine plural
  • tramées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to trame

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is trame in French?

trame appears 6.3 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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