trappiste
\tʁa.pist\
The verdict
“trappiste” is uncommon French (frequency #80,728 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,728
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatifs à ces moines et à leurs bières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trappiste · trappiste · French
trappiste · rank #80,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,728
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transpires
Nearest frequency peer: transpires (-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 « trappiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tramadol
tramadol
19,276 corpus weight
- transnation…
transnationaux
19,275 corpus weight
- transpires
transpires
19,274 corpus weight
- trappiste
trappiste
19,273 corpus weight
- travaillera…
travailleraient
19,272 corpus weight
- trempent
trempent
19,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trappiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trappiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁa.pist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trappiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trappiste is uncommon French at frequency #80,728 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁa.pist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for trappiste, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is trappiste, spelled T-R-A-P-P-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatifs à ces moines et à leurs bières.
- 2Relatif à Trappes, commune française située dans le département des Yvelines.
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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