tranchée
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,285
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
tranchée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouverture, excavation longue et plus ou moins profonde pratiquée dans la terre. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃.ʃe\. Often confused with tronche and trancher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tranchée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tranchée is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,285 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tranchée, with forms such as "rtanchée", "tarnchée", and "tracnhée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "tronche", "trancher", "tranchés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tranchée, spelled T-R-A-N-C-H-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouverture, excavation longue et plus ou moins profonde pratiquée dans la terre.
- 2Entaille en longueur faite dans un mur pour y recevoir une solive ou pour retenir les tuyaux des cheminées.
- 3Fossé qu’on creuse pour se mettre à couvert du feu, à proximité d’une place qu’on assiège ou d’une ligne de bataille, et dont les terres, jetées du côté de l’ennemi, forment un parapet.
- 4Ensemble des personnes, des soldats, présents dans ce retranchement.
- 5Douleurs très aiguës qu’on ressent dans le ventre, dans les entrailles.
- 6Dans une forêt, espace dégagé (non planté d’arbres), en ligne droite, pouvant servir pour les déplacements et servant en même temps de pare-feu.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtanchée,tarnchée,tracnhée,trancchée,tranchee,trancheé,tranchhée,trancéhe,tranhcée,trannchée,trnachée,trranchée,ttranchée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tranchée
Misspelling Variants of "tranchée"
Frequency rank: #13,285 in French
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