Trèbes
\tʁɛb\
The verdict
“Trèbes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,317 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,317
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trebes · Trèbes · French
Trèbes · rank #75,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,317
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trouvère
Nearest frequency peer: trouvère (-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 « Trèbes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- triplet
triplet
24,687 corpus weight
- trouvère
trouvère
24,685 corpus weight
- Trèbes
Trèbes
24,684 corpus weight
- Tucci
Tucci
24,682 corpus weight
- tulip
tulip
24,681 corpus weight
- tutorial
tutorial
24,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Trèbes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Trèbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tʁɛb\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Trèbes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Trèbes is uncommon French at frequency #75,317 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tʁɛb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.".
Trèbes has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Trèbes, spelled T-R-È-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Trèbes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce lieutenant-colonel de gendarmerie, âgé de 44 ans, venait de sacrifier sa vie pour sauver celle d’une otrage, retenue par un terroriste islamiste dans un supermarché de Trèbes, dans l’Aude.
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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