treuil
The verdict
“treuil” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #38,584 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #38,584
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Appareil de levage ou de tirage formé d’un cylindre horizontal appelé tambour, tournant sur un axe et qui assure l'enroulement libre du câble. Le treuil peut être, comme le treuil de halage, entraî...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | treuil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁœj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “treuil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for treuil is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁœj\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,584 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 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for treuil, with forms such as "rteuil", "teruil", and "treiul". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "truie", "trail", 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 treuil, spelled T-R-E-U-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appareil de levage ou de tirage formé d’un cylindre horizontal appelé tambour, tournant sur un axe et qui assure l'enroulement libre du câble. Le treuil peut être, comme le treuil de halage, entraîné manuellement par une manivelle et un pignon qui engrène directement sur une grande couronne dentée associée au tambour, ou actionné par un moteur à vapeur, thermique ou électrique.
- 2Pressoir à raisins.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rteuil,teruil,treiul,treuill,treuli,trreuil,trueil,ttreuil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of treuil — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "treuil"
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 “treuil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-E-U-I-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁœj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “truie” — see the side-by-side comparison. treuil vs truie
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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