traquinet
\tʁa.ki.nɛ\
The verdict
“traquinet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil qui sert à nettoyer le grain des balles et de la menue paille, après le battage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traquinet · traquinet · French
traquinet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traquinet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.ki.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
traquinet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.ki.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil qui sert à nettoyer le grain des balles et de la menue paille, après le battage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for traquinet in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 traquinet, spelled T-R-A-Q-U-I-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Appareil qui sert à nettoyer le grain des balles et de la menue paille, après le battage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how traquinet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] pendant une dizaine de jours, le fermier les retourne à la pelle, après quoi il les passe au tarare - « au traquinet » , comme on dit dans l’Ain - sorte de machine destinée à trier les grains.
Les tarares, appelés encore traquinets, moulins ou grands vans étaient rares ; mais dans les grandes fermes on en possédait généralement un qu’on prêtait aux voisins.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.