transfrontaliers
\tʁɑ̃s.fʁɔ̃.ta.lje\
The verdict
“transfrontaliers” is uncommon French (frequency #51,185 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,185
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de transfrontalier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-transfrontaliers · transfrontaliers · French
transfrontaliers · rank #51,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,185
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traiteurs
Nearest frequency peer: traiteurs (-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 « transfrontaliers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- topaze
topaze
48,820 corpus weight
- trafiqué
trafiqué
48,818 corpus weight
- traiteurs
traiteurs
48,817 corpus weight
- transfronta…
transfrontaliers
48,816 corpus weight
- transpercé
transpercé
48,814 corpus weight
- traumatiser
traumatiser
48,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « transfrontaliers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transfrontaliers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.fʁɔ̃.ta.lje\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #51,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « transfrontaliers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
transfrontaliers is uncommon French at frequency #51,185 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.fʁɔ̃.ta.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de transfrontalier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for transfrontaliers, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is transfrontaliers, spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-R-O-N-T-A-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de transfrontalier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how transfrontaliers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon une étude Empty Pack Survey, publiée par la Société d’exploitation industrielle des tabacs et allumettes (Seita), les achats transfrontaliers de cigarettes par les Français représentaient 18 % au second trimestre 2022.
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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