trapèze
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,051
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
trapèze is aFrenchnoun. It means: Quadrilatère dont deux côtés sont parallèles. Pronounced \tʁa.pɛz\. Often confused with trappe and travée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trapèze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.pɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trapèze is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.pɛz\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,051 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for trapèze, with forms such as "rtapèze", "tarpèze", and "trapeze". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "trappe", "travée", "tapez", and more, 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 trapèze, spelled T-R-A-P-È-Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quadrilatère dont deux côtés sont parallèles.
- 2Ce qui a approximativement la forme de ce quadrilatère.
- 3Appareil formé d’une barre de bois suspendue à deux cordes, qui sert à divers exercices.
- 4Os (de la main) et muscle (du dos) qui ont à peu près la forme d’un trapèze.
- 5Câble qui descend du mât d’un voilier léger ou sportif permettant la sortie d’un équipier pour contre-balancer la gîte.
- 6Une espèce d’insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit commun en Europe de la famille des noctuidés (Noctuidae), de coloration très variable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtapèze,tarpèze,trapeze,trappèze,trapzèe,trapèez,trapèzze,traèpze,trpaèze,trrapèze,ttrapèze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for trapèze
Misspelling Variants of "trapèze"
Frequency rank: #33,051 in French
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