trans
\tʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“trans” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,565. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,565
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à des substituants se trouvant de part et d’autre de l’axe d’une liaison chimique incapable de rotation libre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trans · trans · French
trans · rank #6,565 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,565
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenues
Nearest frequency peer: tenues (-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 « trans »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tactique
tactique
93,439 corpus weight
- tentent
tentent
93,438 corpus weight
- tenues
tenues
93,437 corpus weight
- trans
trans
93,436 corpus weight
- transactions
transactions
93,435 corpus weight
- treize
treize
93,434 corpus weight
What this shows « trans » 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 | trans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trans »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around trans (IPA \tʁɑ̃s\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,565 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à des substituants se trouvant de part et d’autre de l’axe d’une liaison chimique incapable de rotation libre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trans, with forms such as "rtans", "tarns", and "tranns". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "très", "trap", "tron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trans, spelled T-R-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à des substituants se trouvant de part et d’autre de l’axe d’une liaison chimique incapable de rotation libre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les biochimistes se sont demandé pourquoi les isomères de forme trans, et en particulier l’acide élaïdique (C18:1Δ⁹, trans), étaient oxydés dans la cellule moins rapidement que les isomères cis.
On dénomme ces diastéréoisomères par les appellations courantes « Cis » et « Trans » selon que les substituants identiques (ou les plus comparables) sont du même côté par rapport à l’axe de la double liaison ou ne le sont pas.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtans
- tarns
- tranns
- transs
- trasn
- trnas
- trrans
- ttrans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trans - 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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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).