treffen
\ˈtʁɛfn̩\
The verdict
“treffen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rencontrer, dans le sens de trouver en chemin une personne ou une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-treffen · treffen · French
treffen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | treffen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtʁɛfn̩\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
treffen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtʁɛfn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for treffen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 treffen, spelled T-R-E-F-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1Rencontrer, dans le sens de trouver en chemin une personne ou une chose.
- 2sich treffen : se rencontrer.
- 3Toucher, heurter, frapper, atteindre.
- 4Affecter, agir sur, de manière négative, toucher, frapper.
- 5Toucher, affecter, concerner.
- 6Prendre (une décision).
- 7Conclure, signer (un accord).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how treffen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es ist schwierig, sie in Hannover zu treffen.
An das letzte Mal, als sie ihre Tochter getroffen haben, können sich Gabriele und Otto* noch genau erinnern.
Antonyms
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.