trancher
\tʁɑ̃.ʃe\
The verdict
“trancher” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,143. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,143
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couper net ; séparer en coupant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trancher · trancher · French
trancher · rank #11,143 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,143
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traducteur
Nearest frequency peer: traducteur (-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 « trancher »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- séisme
séisme
88,861 corpus weight
- temporaires
temporaires
88,860 corpus weight
- traducteur
traducteur
88,859 corpus weight
- trancher
trancher
88,858 corpus weight
- troupeau
troupeau
88,857 corpus weight
- vaccination
vaccination
88,855 corpus weight
What this shows « trancher » 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 | trancher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trancher »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around trancher (IPA \tʁɑ̃.ʃe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,143 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for trancher, with forms such as "rtancher", "tarncher", and "tracnher". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tronche", "tricher", "transfer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 trancher, spelled T-R-A-N-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couper net ; séparer en coupant.
- 2Résoudre tout d’un coup une question difficile ; lever tout d’un coup un obstacle, une difficulté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trancher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; mais , le jeune martyr étant resté aussi ferme devant les tortures que devant les séductions mondaines, le khalife donna l’ordre de trancher tour à tour avec le glaive chacun de ses membres meurtris ; l’ordre barbare fut obéi.
Ça tranche comme un damas, dit-il. Que veux-tu en faire ? C’est un couteau d'homme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtancher
- tarncher
- tracnher
- tranccher
- trancehr
- trancherr
- tranchher
- tranchre
- tranhcer
- tranncher
- trnacher
- trrancher
- ttrancher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trancher - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).