travestir
\tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ\
The verdict
“travestir” is uncommon French (frequency #52,403 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,403
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Porter des vêtements habituellement associés à un autre genre ou d’une autre condition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travestir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “travestir” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
travestir is uncommon French at frequency #52,403 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
travestir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is travestir, spelled T-R-A-V-E-S-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Porter des vêtements habituellement associés à un autre genre ou d’une autre condition.
- 2Déguiser, changer, modifier pour empêcher une identification.
- 3Transposer librement un ouvrage sérieux, pour le rendre comique, burlesque, parodier.
- 4Interpréter mal la pensée de quelqu’un, la rendre d’une manière inexacte, infidèle.
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); 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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Using “travestir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-V-E-S-T-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.