transfuge
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,355
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
transfuge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui, à la guerre, abandonne les troupes dont il fait partie pour passer à l’ennemi. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.fyʒ\. Often confused with transféré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transfuge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.fyʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for transfuge is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃s.fyʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,355 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for transfuge, with forms such as "rtansfuge", "tarnsfuge", and "tranfsuge". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "transféré", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is transfuge, spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, à la guerre, abandonne les troupes dont il fait partie pour passer à l’ennemi.
- 2Personne qui fuit.
- 3Quiconque abandonne son parti pour passer dans le parti contraire.
- 4Défecteur qui livre des secrets et renseignement à celui qui était auparavant son ennemi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtansfuge,tarnsfuge,tranfsuge,trannsfuge,transffuge,transfgue,transfueg,transfugge,transsfuge,transufge,trasnfuge,trnasfuge,trransfuge,ttransfuge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for transfuge
Misspelling Variants of "transfuge"
Frequency rank: #45,355 in French
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