trembler comme une feuille
\tʁɑ̃.ble kɔ.m‿yn fœj\
The verdict
“trembler comme une feuille” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Être pris de tremblements.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trembler comme une feuille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.ble kɔ.m‿yn fœj\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trembler comme une feuille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trembler comme une feuille is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.ble kɔ.m‿yn fœj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for trembler comme une feuille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 trembler comme une feuille, spelled T-R-E-M-B-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -F-E-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être pris de tremblements.
- 2Avoir très peur ; être terrorisé.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-E-M-B-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -F-E-U-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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