trapèze
\tʁa.pɛz\
The verdict
“trapèze” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,051. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,051
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quadrilatère dont deux côtés sont parallèles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trapeze · trapèze · French
trapèze · rank #33,051 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,051
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triangulaires
Nearest frequency peer: triangulaires (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « trapèze »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tonnage
tonnage
66,954 corpus weight
- tractations
tractations
66,952 corpus weight
- trapèze
trapèze
66,950 corpus weight
- triangulair…
triangulaires
66,949 corpus weight
- tripartite
tripartite
66,948 corpus weight
- turbulent
turbulent
66,947 corpus weight
What this shows « trapèze » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trapèze »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around trapèze (IPA \tʁa.pɛz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,051 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for trapèze, with forms such as "rtapèze", "tarpèze", and "trapeze". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "trappe", "travée", "tapez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trapèze, spelled T-R-A-P-È-Z-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trapèze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trapeze eſt vn quadrangle quadrilatere, qui n'eſt pas parallelogramme
Les régions orientales de la Colombie, situées au-delà de la cordillère, ainsi que le Trapèze amazonien, ont été pendant des siècles considérées comme des « territoires sauvages », des espaces vides ou des « enfers verts ». Même aujourd'hui, quand on pense aux Indiens de l’Amazonie colombienne, on les imagine souvent comme des groupes d'individus isolés […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtapèze
- tarpèze
- trapeze
- trappèze
- trapzèe
- trapèez
- trapèzze
- traèpze
- trpaèze
- trrapèze
- ttrapèze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trapèze - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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