travestir
\tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ\
The verdict
“travestir” is uncommon French (frequency #52,403 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,403
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porter des vêtements habituellement associés à un autre genre ou d’une autre condition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-travestir · travestir · French
travestir · rank #52,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,403
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trilingue
Nearest frequency peer: trilingue (+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 « travestir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tod
Tod
47,602 corpus weight
- totalisé
totalisé
47,601 corpus weight
- touchantes
touchantes
47,600 corpus weight
- travestir
travestir
47,598 corpus weight
- trilingue
trilingue
47,597 corpus weight
- téléchargés
téléchargés
47,595 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « travestir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « travestir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
travestir is uncommon French at frequency #52,403 among 3,703 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how travestir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était travesti en Charlot et tenait à la main une petite moustache noire qu’il enduisait de colle.
Cette femme aimait à se travestir en homme.
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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