transfert
\tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“transfert” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,649 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,649
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de transférer ; passage de quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre.
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 | transfert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “transfert” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for transfert is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,649 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for transfert, with forms such as "rtansfert", "tarnsfert", and "tranfsert". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "transmet", "transport", "transferts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 transfert, spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Action de transférer ; passage de quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre.
- 2Synonyme usuel du terme juridique transfèrement.
- 3Acte par lequel on déclare transporter à un autre la propriété d’une rente sur l’état, d’une valeur, d’une marchandise.
- 4Changement de club par un sportif.
- 5Dans un système cellulaire de radiocommunication avec les téléphones mobiles, commutation des moyens de transmission utilisés par une communication sans interruption de cette dernière.
- 6Report plus ou moins direct d’un sentiment ou d’un vécu infantile par l’analysant sur le psychanalyste.
- 7Déplacement d’une substance d’un support sur un autre.
- 8Procédé consistant à transférer sur un support de rédaction une image imprimée sur une feuille, généralement plastique, par une forte pression exercée au dos de cette feuille à l’aide d’un brunissoir.
- 9Création d'un lemme par mutation de la catégorie lexicale d'un premier terme, sans modification de sa forme, également appelée transposition, translation, ou dérivation impropre.
- 10En langue des signes française, le transfert désigne le fait, pour le locuteur ou la locutrice, de modifier le sens des signes par le regard ou la position dans l’espace : — modification de la taille et de la forme de ce qui est énoncé (transfert de taille et de forme, TTF) ; — indication de la position dans l’espace de ce qui est énoncé (transfert de situation, TS), le locuteur ou la locutrice est alors dans la position d’un observateur ; — indication de ce que fait ou ressent une personne ou un personnage, le locuteur ou la locutrice étant « dans la peau » du personnage (transfert de personne, TP).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtansfert,tarnsfert,tranfsert,trannsfert,transefrt,transferrt,transfertt,transfetr,transffert,transfret,transsfert,trasnfert,trnasfert,trransfert,ttransfert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of transfert - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “transfert”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁɑ̃s.fɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “transmet” - see the side-by-side comparison. transfert vs transmet
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.