Tremblay
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,689
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
Tremblay is aFrenchname. It means: Nom de famille originaire de France, courant au Canada, particulièrement dans la région québécoise du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃.ble\. Often confused with tremblé and trembler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tremblay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.ble\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Tremblay is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.ble\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,689 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille originaire de France, courant au Canada, particulièrement dans la région québécoise du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tremblay, with forms such as "rtemblay", "termblay", and "trebmlay". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "tremblé", "trembler", "trembles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Tremblay, spelled T-R-E-M-B-L-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille originaire de France, courant au Canada, particulièrement dans la région québécoise du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtemblay,termblay,trebmlay,trembaly,trembblay,tremblayy,trembllay,tremblya,tremlbay,tremmblay,trmeblay,trremblay,ttremblay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Tremblay"
Frequency rank: #12,689 in French
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