tresse
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,847
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tresse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de petits cordons, de fils, de cheveux, etc. entrelacés. Pronounced \tʁɛs\. Often confused with trêve and triste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tresse is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,847 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tresse, with forms such as "rtesse", "tersse", and "trese". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trêve", "triste", "tueuse", 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 tresse, spelled T-R-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de petits cordons, de fils, de cheveux, etc. entrelacés.
- 2Natte ; mèche de cheveux tressée.
- 3Spécialité de pain au beurre composée de deux ou trois boudins de pâte tressés.
- 4Partie du bas de ligne située entre la soie et la queue-de-rat, constituée de fils tressés.
- 5Réunion de brins deux à deux disjoints.
- 6Travail de vannerie.
- 7Pain brioché sucré fait en tordant ensemble deux bandes de pâte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtesse,tersse,trese,treses,trresse,trsese,ttresse
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Misspelling Variants of "tresse"
Frequency rank: #30,847 in French
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