triangle

/\tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,050

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

triangle is aFrenchnoun. It means: En géométrie euclidienne, polygone qui a trois côtés, et donc trois sommets. Pronounced \tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl\. It ranks #8,050 in French word frequency. Often confused with triangles and triage.

Key facts for triangle
PropertyValue
Headwordtriangle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,050
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of triangle in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for triangle is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,050 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for triangle, with forms such as "rtiangle", "tirangle", and "traingle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "triangles", "triage", 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 triangle, spelled T-R-I-A-N-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En géométrie euclidienne, polygone qui a trois côtés, et donc trois sommets.
  2. 2
    Objet de forme triangulaire.
  3. 3
    Espace géographique délimité par trois points.
  4. 4
    Instrument à percussion de l’orchestre, fait d’une baguette métallique courbée de façon triangulaire et percutée avec une tringle métallique.
  5. 5
    Pubis féminin ; cache-sexe.
  6. 6
    Meuble représentant une forme triangulaire dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté plein et posé sur un côté. Il peut être évidé et/ou renversé. Il est parfois en deux exemplaires (un renversé) évidés et entrelacés pour former une étoile à six branches. Une surface recouverte de triangles est dite : trianglée.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtiangle,tirangle,traingle,triagnle,triangel,trianggle,trianglle,trianlge,trianngle,trinagle,trriangle,ttriangle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for triangle

Misspelling Variants of "triangle"

rtiangle8tirangle8traingle8triagnle8triangel8trianggle9trianglle9trianlge8
Misspelling Variants of "triangle"

Frequency rank: #8,050 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "triangle"?
"triangle" is spelled T-R-I-A-N-G-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl\.
What does "triangle" mean?
As a noun, "triangle" means: En géométrie euclidienne, polygone qui a trois côtés, et donc trois sommets.
What words are commonly confused with "triangle"?
"triangle" is commonly confused with "triangles", "triage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "triangle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "triangle" is \tʁi.jɑ̃ɡl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "triangle" come from?
"triangle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.