trempette
\tʁɑ̃.pɛt\
The verdict
“trempette” is uncommon French (frequency #56,990 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,990
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sauce utilisée comme condiment dans laquelle on trempe certains aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trempette · trempette · French
trempette · rank #56,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,990
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transportera
Nearest frequency peer: transportera (-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 « trempette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transgéniqu…
transgéniques
43,014 corpus weight
- transparency
transparency
43,013 corpus weight
- transportera
transportera
43,012 corpus weight
- trempette
trempette
43,011 corpus weight
- trempées
trempées
43,010 corpus weight
- troyen
troyen
43,008 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trempette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trempette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trempette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trempette is uncommon French at frequency #56,990 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.pɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for trempette, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trempette, spelled T-R-E-M-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sauce utilisée comme condiment dans laquelle on trempe certains aliments.
- 2Morceau de pain, biscuit qu’on trempe dans du vin ou dans tout autre liquide.
- 3Bain très court, baignade rapide dans peu d’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trempette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La trempette que tous les Québécois ont goûtée au moins une fois dans leur vie arrive sur le marché en formule déjà mélangée. Oui, la mayochup, heureuse rencontre entre la mayonnaise et le ketchup, existe.
Quand j’vas être un bon gars M’en vas les inviter M’en vas faire un party Des sushis, des trempettes Amène-z-en, m’as n’en mettre M’as m’en déboucher une Une fois n’est pas coutume
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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