trancha
\tʁɑ̃.ʃa\
The verdict
“trancha” is uncommon French (frequency #84,385 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,385
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trancher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trancha · trancha · French
trancha · rank #84,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,385
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tractage
Nearest frequency peer: tractage (-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 « trancha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- torrens
torrens
15,619 corpus weight
- tractage
tractage
15,617 corpus weight
- trancha
trancha
15,616 corpus weight
- transcendan…
transcendantal
15,615 corpus weight
- transcrites
transcrites
15,614 corpus weight
- transfiguré
transfiguré
15,613 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trancha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trancha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trancha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trancha is uncommon French at frequency #84,385 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trancher.".
Zero misspellings are on record for trancha in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is trancha, spelled T-R-A-N-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de trancher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trancha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son adversaire, surpris de l’attaque, baissa sa garde et Enendel lui trancha la tête.
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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