tri
French, noun/tʁi/
tri is spelled T-R-I (3 letters) and appears 9.5 times per million words in written French, the 6,944th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tri is a French masculine noun meaning “selection, sorting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de trier”.
What does tri mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineselection, sorting
- 2
masculinesort
prefix
- 1
tri-
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de trier.
noun: 1. Triporteur
prefix: 1. Signifie trois, triple. 2. Préfixe représentant le chiffre trois lors de la formation du nom provisoire systématique d’un élément chimique. Le i final est élidé devant le suffixe -ium.
noun: 1. Taux d'actualisation qui annule la valeur actuelle nette d'une série de flux financiers.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tri
- tris plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tri?
- /tʁi/
- \tʁi\
- \te.ɛ.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tri
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tri in French?
tri appears 9.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).