translate

\tʁɑ̃s.lat\

/\tʁɑ̃s.lat\/ verb

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The verdict

“translate” is uncommon French (frequency #51,789 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,789
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe translater.

Corpus desk

Index FR-translate · translate · French

translate · rank #51,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,789
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH transmettez

Nearest frequency peer: transmettez (+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 « translate »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « translate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for translate
PropertyValue
Headwordtranslate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tʁɑ̃s.lat\
Letters9
Frequency rank#51,789
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « translate » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.translatetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « transmettez » (#51,790), « transfuges » (#51,787), « tribuns » (#51,791). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « translate » est au #51,789. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

translate is uncommon French at frequency #51,789 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.lat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for translate in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is translate, spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-A-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe translater.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe translater.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe translater.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe translater.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe translater.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "translate"?
"translate" is spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ̃s.lat\.
What does "translate" mean?
As a verb, "translate" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe translater.
How do you pronounce "translate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "translate" is \tʁɑ̃s.lat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "translate" come from?
"translate" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "translate", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Turkestan#51,794toucheras#51,783Thuillier#51,780terrifiés#51,778

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list