travertin
\tʁa.vɛʁ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“travertin” is uncommon French (frequency #79,817 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,817
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche sédimentaire calcaire composée de dépôts précipités par des eaux de source; blanche quand pure (mais tirant vers le gris ou jaunâtre ou rougeâtre ou marron, selon les impuretés) caractérisée ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-travertin · travertin · French
travertin · rank #79,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,817
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traverseront
Nearest frequency peer: traverseront (-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 « travertin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- traditional…
traditionalisme
20,187 corpus weight
- transes
transes
20,186 corpus weight
- traverseront
traverseront
20,185 corpus weight
- travertin
travertin
20,184 corpus weight
- tressées
tressées
20,183 corpus weight
- trin
trin
20,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « travertin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travertin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.vɛʁ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « travertin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
travertin is uncommon French at frequency #79,817 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.vɛʁ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roche sédimentaire calcaire composée de dépôts précipités par des eaux de source; blanche quand pure (mais tirant vers le gris ou jaunâtre ou rougeâtre ou marron, selon les impuretés) caractérisée ...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for travertin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is travertin, spelled T-R-A-V-E-R-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Roche sédimentaire calcaire composée de dépôts précipités par des eaux de source; blanche quand pure (mais tirant vers le gris ou jaunâtre ou rougeâtre ou marron, selon les impuretés) caractérisée par de petites vacuoles inégalement réparties.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how travertin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les édifices de Rome sont pour la plupart construits en travertin.
La réaction peut être inverse (par ex. lorsque l’eau se réchauffe, qu’il y a baisse de la teneur en CO2) et dans ce cas, il y a précipitation de la calcite (ou carbonate de calcium), à l’origine des dépôts de tufs et travertins en milieu calcaire.
Synonyms
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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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