transmis
\tʁɑ̃s.mi\
The verdict
“transmis” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,250 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #6,250
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe passé masculin de transmettre.
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 | transmis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.mi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “transmis” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for transmis is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃s.mi\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,250 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for transmis, with forms such as "rtansmis", "tarnsmis", and "tranmsis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "transmise", "transmises", "transit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 transmis, spelled T-R-A-N-S-M-I-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin de transmettre.
- 2Première personne du singulier du passé simple de transmettre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de transmettre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtansmis,tarnsmis,tranmsis,trannsmis,transims,transmiss,transmmis,transmsi,transsmis,trasnmis,trnasmis,trransmis,ttransmis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of transmis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “transmis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-N-S-M-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁɑ̃s.mi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “transmise” - see the side-by-side comparison. transmis vs transmise
- 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.