trams
\tʁam\
The verdict
“trams” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,057
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tram.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trams · trams · French
trams · rank #40,057 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,057
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traire
Nearest frequency peer: traire (-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 « trams »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- toxicomanes
toxicomanes
59,946 corpus weight
- traire
traire
59,945 corpus weight
- trams
trams
59,944 corpus weight
- transmets
transmets
59,943 corpus weight
- trias
trias
59,942 corpus weight
- tributaires
tributaires
59,941 corpus weight
What this shows « trams » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | trams |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trams »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around trams (IPA \tʁam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,057 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tram.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trams, with forms such as "rtams", "tarms", and "tramms". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "très", "trap", "trav", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trams, spelled T-R-A-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tram.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtams
- tarms
- tramms
- tramss
- trasm
- trmas
- trrams
- ttrams
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trams - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).