transalpin
\tʁɑ̃.zal.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“transalpin” is uncommon French (frequency #86,264 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,264
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de l’autre côté des Alpes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-transalpin · transalpin · French
transalpin · rank #86,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,264
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tranquilliser
Nearest frequency peer: tranquilliser (-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 « transalpin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tragedie
tragedie
13,739 corpus weight
- tranquillis…
tranquilliser
13,738 corpus weight
- transalpin
transalpin
13,737 corpus weight
- transformons
transformons
13,736 corpus weight
- transhumani…
transhumaniste
13,735 corpus weight
- traumatisan…
traumatisantes
13,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « transalpin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transalpin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.zal.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « transalpin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
transalpin is uncommon French at frequency #86,264 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.zal.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
transalpin has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is transalpin, spelled T-R-A-N-S-A-L-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est de l’autre côté des Alpes.
- 2(Surtout en France et en Suisse) Italien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how transalpin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peuples transalpins.
La Gaule transalpine.
This word in other languages
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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