tremblais
\tʁɑ̃.blɛ\
The verdict
“tremblais” is uncommon French (frequency #64,141 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,141
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trembler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tremblais · tremblais · French
tremblais · rank #64,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,141
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transitif
Nearest frequency peer: transitif (-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 « tremblais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- torturées
torturées
35,864 corpus weight
- transitif
transitif
35,861 corpus weight
- tremblais
tremblais
35,860 corpus weight
- Tripolitaine
Tripolitaine
35,859 corpus weight
- troglodytes
troglodytes
35,858 corpus weight
- trolle
trolle
35,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tremblais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tremblais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.blɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tremblais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tremblais is uncommon French at frequency #64,141 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.blɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tremblais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tremblais, spelled T-R-E-M-B-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trembler.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trembler.
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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