trêve

\tʁɛv\

/\tʁɛv\/ noun

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The verdict

“trêve” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,940
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suspension de l’usage des armes, cessation de tout acte d’hostilité pour un certain temps, par convention faite entre deux États, entre deux partis qui sont en guerre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-treve · trêve · French

trêve · rank #8,940 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,940
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH touristiques

Nearest frequency peer: touristiques (-2 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 « trêve »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « trêve » 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).

trêve vs tuée
40% similar
trêve vs true
60% similar
trêve vs trie
60% similar

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

Key facts for trêve
PropertyValue
Headwordtrêve
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɛv\
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,940
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trêve »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).trêvese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « touristiques » (#8,938), « USB » (#8,942), « toiles » (#8,937). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trêve » est au #8,940. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around trêve (IPA \tʁɛv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,940 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trêve, with forms such as "rtêve", "treve", and "trrêve". 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, "tuée", "true", "trie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is trêve, spelled T-R-Ê-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Suspension de l’usage des armes, cessation de tout acte d’hostilité pour un certain temps, par convention faite entre deux États, entre deux partis qui sont en guerre.
  2. 2
    Toute suspension d’hostilités entre adversaires.
  3. 3
    Relâche.
  4. 4
    Cesser quelque chose ; cesser de parler de quelque chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le Roi a une entrevue à Nice avec le Pape Paul III, qui ménage une trêve de dix ans entre les Puissances belligérantes.
  2. J’ai peu de choses importantes à vous apprendre, […], si ce n’est la nouvelle déjà confirmée d’une trêve entre les croisés et Saladin.

Synonyms

pauserelâche

This word in other languages

truce(English)tregua(Español)Waffenstillstand(Deutsch)trégua(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtêve
  • treve
  • trrêve
  • trvêe
  • trêev
  • trêvve
  • ttrêve
  • têrve

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trêve - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rtêve2treve1trrêve1trvêe2trêev2trêvve1ttrêve1têrve2
Edit distance from "trêve"

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 "trêve"?
"trêve" is spelled T-R-Ê-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɛv\.
What does "trêve" mean?
As a noun, "trêve" means: Suspension de l’usage des armes, cessation de tout acte d’hostilité pour un certain temps, par convention faite entre deux États, entre deux partis qui sont en guerre.
What words are commonly confused with "trêve"?
"trêve" is commonly confused with "tuée", "true", "trie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trêve"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trêve" is \tʁɛv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trêve" come from?
"trêve" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

viser#8,945stone#8,932Agnès#8,956savon#8,924

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

toiles8 variantstireur8 variantssquare8 variantssoudan8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list