tresse

\tʁɛs\

/\tʁɛs\/ noun

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The verdict

“tresse” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,847
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assemblage de petits cordons, de fils, de cheveux, etc. entrelacés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tresse · tresse · French

tresse · rank #30,847 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,847
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH traversés

Nearest frequency peer: traversés (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tresse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tresse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tresse vs trêve
50% similar
tresse vs triste
67% similar
tresse vs tueuse
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tresse
PropertyValue
Headwordtresse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɛs\
Letters6
Frequency rank#30,847
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tresse »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tressese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « traversés » (#30,846), « tuait » (#30,848), « trav » (#30,845). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tresse » est au #30,847. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around tresse (IPA \tʁɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,847 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tresse, with forms such as "rtesse", "tersse", and "trese". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trêve", "triste", "tueuse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tresse, spelled T-R-E-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblage de petits cordons, de fils, de cheveux, etc. entrelacés.
  2. 2
    Natte ; mèche de cheveux tressée.
  3. 3
    Spécialité de pain au beurre composée de deux ou trois boudins de pâte tressés.
  4. 4
    Partie du bas de ligne située entre la soie et la queue-de-rat, constituée de fils tressés.
  5. 5
    Réunion de brins deux à deux disjoints.
  6. 6
    Travail de vannerie.
  7. 7
    Pain brioché sucré fait en tordant ensemble deux bandes de pâte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. …et les tresses de ses cheveux aux reflets bleuâtres pouvaient, lorsqu’elles étaient défaites, former un voile à tout son corps.
  2. Elle portait toujours ses cheveux nattés, et c’étaient maintenant deux tresses blanches qui lui couraient jusqu’à la taille.

Synonyms

natte

This word in other languages

tress(English)trenza(Español)Zopf(Deutsch)trança(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtesse
  • tersse
  • trese
  • treses
  • trresse
  • trsese
  • ttresse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tresse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

rtesse2tersse2trese1treses2trresse1trsese2ttresse1
Edit distance from "tresse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tresse"?
"tresse" is spelled T-R-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɛs\.
What does "tresse" mean?
As a noun, "tresse" means: Assemblage de petits cordons, de fils, de cheveux, etc. entrelacés.
What words are commonly confused with "tresse"?
"tresse" is commonly confused with "trêve", "triste", "tueuse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tresse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tresse" is \tʁɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tresse" come from?
"tresse" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tresse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

toxine#30,844urines#30,850Torino#30,842Tolède#30,841

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

usent7 variantsVance7 variantsVence7 variantsvende7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list