tremplin
\tʁɑ̃.plɛ̃\
The verdict
“tremplin” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #17,295 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #17,295
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Planche inclinée, élastique, sur laquelle les sauteurs ou les plongeurs bondissent pour s’élancer et faire des sauts ou des plongeons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tremplin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.plɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tremplin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tremplin is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.plɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,295 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tremplin, with forms such as "rtemplin", "termplin", and "tremlpin". 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 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 tremplin, spelled T-R-E-M-P-L-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Planche inclinée, élastique, sur laquelle les sauteurs ou les plongeurs bondissent pour s’élancer et faire des sauts ou des plongeons.
- 2Circonstance favorable à l'accélération du développement d’une affaire, d’une entreprise.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtemplin,termplin,tremlpin,tremmplin,trempiln,tremplinn,trempllin,tremplni,trempplin,trepmlin,trmeplin,trremplin,ttremplin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tremplin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “tremplin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-E-M-P-L-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁɑ̃.plɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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